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Norman Mailer Quotes
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Alimony is the curse of the writing class. - Norman Mailer Quotes
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Cultures worth huge, huge risks. Without culture were all totalitarian beasts. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Every moment of ones existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Every moment of ones existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. - Norman Mailer Quotes
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. - Norman Mailer Quotes
I dont think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for. - Norman Mailer Quotes
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in ones mind. - Norman Mailer Quotes
I hate everything which is not in myself. - Norman Mailer Quotes
I think its bad to talk about ones present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Im hostile to men, Im hostile to women, Im hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, Im afraid of horses. - Norman Mailer Quotes
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 Quotes
In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. - Norman Mailer Quotes
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Its not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Its not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. - Norman Mailer Quotes
One thing Ive learned in all these years is not to make love when you really dont feel it; theres probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Part of the ability to keep writing over the years comes down to living with the expectation of disappointment. Its the exact opposite of capitalism. In capitalism you want your business to succeed, and to the degree it does your energy increases, and you go out and buy an even bigger business. In writing its almost the exact opposite. You just want to keep the store going. Youre not going to do as well this year as last year probably, but nonetheless lets keep the store going. What ruins most writers of talent is that they dont get enough experience, so their novels tend to develop a certain paranoid perfection. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. - Norman Mailer Quotes
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. - Norman Mailer Quotes
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