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Norman Mailer
Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war; you go into battle not when you are ready but when action offers itself.
Norman Mailer, The Presidential Papers

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  • Shilling, Lilless McPherson; Linda K. Fuller (1997). Dictionary of Quotations in Communications. Greenwood Press. p. 120. ISBN 0313304300.