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

— Norman Mailer

Source: The Man Who Studied Yoga (1956), Ch. 5

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American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film m… 1923–2007

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