# The Armies of the Night

- Author: [Norman Mailer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer.md)
- Quotes: 2
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/the-armies-of-the-night

## Quotes

> His consolation in those hours when he was most uncharitable to himself is that taken at his very worst he was at least still worthy of being a character in a novel by Balzac, win one day, lose the next, and do it with boom! and baroque in the style.

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> There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

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