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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
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"Hip, Hell, and the Navigator" in Western Review No. 23 (Winter 1959); republished in Conversations with Norman Mailer (1988) edited by J. Michael Lennon.

 

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