Why else lead a life of bad banquet dinners, cigar smoke, c… - Norman Mailer

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Why else lead a life of bad banquet dinners, cigar smoke, camp chairs, foul breath, and excruciatingly dull jargon if not to avoid the echoes of what is not known.

Norman Mailer

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About Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer (31 January 1923 – 10 November 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director who is considered to have been innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism.

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Pen Names: Andreas Wilson

Birth Name: Norman Kingsley Mailer

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Let every
writer
tell his
own
lies
That's freedom
of the
press.

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However could he organize his novel? What form to give it? It is so complex. Too loose, thinks Sam, too scattered.

Why else lead a life of bad banquet dinners, cigar smoke, camp chairs, foul breath, and excruciatingly dull jargon if not to avoid the echoes of what… - Norman Mailer

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