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— Norman Mailer"Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words."
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It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, 'My God, do you think we'll ever learn to fly anything this big?'
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