“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came [...]
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Mailer on Life
“…there was that law of life so cruel and yet so just that one must grow or else pay more to remain the same.” The Deer Park
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Mailer on Violence
“Violence is the last frontier in literature.” Interview with Andrew O’Hagan, Paris Review, No. 181 (Summer 2007).
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Mailer on Marriage
“It is an excrementious relationship; we can take all that is bad in us and throw it at the mate. She throws it back and you both shake hands and go on with your business. You can’t do that out in the world.”
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