Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Hearn’s death was happily smudged, or at least on the surface, but ever since the second ambush he had been feeling the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“At the end of medicine is dope; at the end of life is death; at the end of man may be the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“He knew that again now. Hennessey’s death had opened to Croft vistas of such omnipotence that he was afraid to consider it… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Dying cant be all that difficult, up to now everyone has managed to do it. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at… — 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 Image
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 Image
So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — 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. We were… — 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 mysteries are… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation. — 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 White Protestants… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image