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The platitude turned on its head is still a platitude - Norman Mailer Quotes

The platitude turned on its head is still a platitude

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

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

American Novelist

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. - Norman Mailer Quotes

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

American Novelist Law

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

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.

American Novelist Television

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. - Norman Mailer Quotes

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

American Novelist

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation - Norman Mailer Quotes

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen. - Norman Mailer Quotes

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. - Norman Mailer Quotes

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

American Novelist

I've had an exciting relation to France all my life, from my young years in Brooklyn when I thought that Paris was the place to be. - Norman Mailer Quotes

I've had an exciting relation to France all my life, from my young years in Brooklyn when I thought that Paris was the place to be.

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'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

American Novelist Cats

Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs. - Norman Mailer Quotes

Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

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

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.

American Novelist Lawyer

He bears an unmistakable resemblance to a cornered rat - Norman Mailer Quotes

He bears an unmistakable resemblance to a cornered rat

To be a mainstream American is to live as an oxymoron. You are a good Christian, but you strain to remain dynamically competitive. - Norman Mailer Quotes

To be a mainstream American is to live as an oxymoron. You are a good Christian, but you strain to remain dynamically competitive.

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others. - Norman Mailer Quotes

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

Drugs

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. - Norman Mailer Quotes

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

American Novelist Sophistication

Dying canÃ¢â¬â¢t be all that difficult, up to now everyone has managed to do it. - Norman Mailer Quotes

Dying canÃ¢â¬â¢t be all that difficult, up to now everyone has managed to do it.

Is there meat in these? I'm a vegetarian. - Norman Mailer Quotes

Is there meat in these? I'm a vegetarian.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it. - Norman Mailer Quotes

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

American Novelist Believe

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. - Norman Mailer Quotes

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

American Novelist Art

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. - Norman Mailer Quotes

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

American Novelist Growth

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be. - Norman Mailer Quotes

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

American Novelist Sex

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

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.

American Novelist Democracy

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. - Norman Mailer Quotes

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

American Novelist Culture

I felt something shift to murder in me. I felt that I was an outlaw, a psychic outlaw, and I liked it. - Norman Mailer Quotes

I felt something shift to murder in me. I felt that I was an outlaw, a psychic outlaw, and I liked it.

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

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.

America American Novelist

In my day the library was a wonderful place... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge. - Norman Mailer Quotes

In my day the library was a wonderful place... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. - Norman Mailer Quotes

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away. - Norman Mailer Quotes

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

America Democracy

The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination. - Norman Mailer Quotes

The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.

Modern And Modernism

Alimony is the curse of the writing class. - Norman Mailer Quotes

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

American Novelist Class

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

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.

American Novelist Living

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil. - Norman Mailer Quotes

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

American Novelist

You never really know a woman until you meet her in court - Norman Mailer Quotes

You never really know a woman until you meet her in court

Woman

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

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.

American Novelist

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

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.

American Novelist Existence

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 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.

American Novelist Present

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. - Norman Mailer Quotes

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

American Novelist Socialism

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. - Norman Mailer Quotes

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

American Novelist Books And Reading

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

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.

American Novelist Minority

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day - Norman Mailer Quotes

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. - Norman Mailer Quotes

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

American Novelist

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. - Norman Mailer Quotes

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

American Novelist Ask

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul - Norman Mailer Quotes

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. - Norman Mailer Quotes

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

America American Novelist

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 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.

America American Novelist

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety - Norman Mailer Quotes

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety

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

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.

American Novelist Children

I usually need a can of beer to prime me. - Norman Mailer Quotes

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Funny Motivational

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood. - Norman Mailer Quotes

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

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