It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
DICK CAVETTThe emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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