People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people? — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity; it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost. — Norman Mailer Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
“City Point is so beautiful, she says. In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
“I find it’s more fun to write about something that you don’t know completely and that you will discover on route. A dear friend… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer Copy Share
Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation. — Norman Mailer Copy Share
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not only a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
