"Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy when he or she has a success. That's tough. Very few people get to that point. With writers it's next to impossible. You can't really bless a writer who's as good as yourself."

-- Norman Mailer

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“'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.”
“All that is real is seen with the heart.”
“Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.”
“The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy.”
“Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.”
“A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?”

Source : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.435, Ballantine Books
“It is your birthright to live a life abundant in love. Make the commitment today to open your heart and let your love flow.”
“Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.”

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