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Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself. (Norman Mailer Quotes)
What’s the use of being a writer if you can’t irritate a great many people? (Norman Mailer Quotes)
I respect most boxers because they’re violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others. (Norman Mailer Quotes)
There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will. (Norman Mailer Quotes)
I think it’s bad to talk about one’s present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Dying can’t be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it (Norman Mailer Quotes)
I no longer gave a sick dog’s drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public’s literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing. (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Even an evil man can have principlesÂÂ-he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy. (Norman Mailer Quotes)
The fact that we’ve been a great democracy doesn’t mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag. (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can’t borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision. (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Culture’s worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we’re all totalitarian beasts (Norman Mailer Quotes)
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery (Norman Mailer Quotes)
What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex? (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Goldstein, you’d be a pretty good boy if you wasn’t so chicken (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars (Norman Mailer Quotes)
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they’re trying to recapture (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children (Norman Mailer Quotes)
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder (Norman Mailer Quotes)
There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Writers don’t have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist (Norman Mailer Quotes)
There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak. Hula, hula, said the witches (Norman Mailer Quotes)
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war (Norman Mailer Quotes)
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you (Norman Mailer Quotes)