Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward. (Norman Mailer)

Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.

Norman Mailer

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