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Norman Mailer Quotes
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I don't 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)
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce (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)
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor (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 one’s 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)
Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another (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)
I’m hostile to men, I’m hostile to women, I’m hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I’m afraid of horses (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)
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one’s mind (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)
It’s not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway (Norman Mailer Quotes)
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people (Norman Mailer Quotes)
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube (Norman Mailer Quotes)
When I read it, I don’t wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write (Norman Mailer Quotes)
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation (Norman Mailer Quotes)
The world’s not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world (Norman Mailer Quotes)
The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another (Norman Mailer Quotes)
The women’s movement is filled with tyrants, just as men’s political movements are equally filled (Norman Mailer Quotes)
I’ve made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one (Norman Mailer Quotes)
So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer (Norman Mailer Quotes)
People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they’re full of shame. You just don’t go in and inject democracy into them. They’re half crazy with their own (Norman Mailer Quotes)
A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They’re not just ipso facto and just go on and on (Norman Mailer Quotes)
The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian (Norman Mailer Quotes)
I don’t read other writers because I’m writing all the time. It’s too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you’re in the middle of putting your work together (Norman Mailer Quotes)
People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don’t understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled (Norman Mailer Quotes)
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war (Norman Mailer Quotes)
One thing I’ve learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don’t feel it; there’s probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that (Norman Mailer Quotes)