Norman Mailer quote: If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his ...

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

~ Norman Mailer ~

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