--- title: "20 Ifs Quotes By Norman Mailer" description: "20 Ifs quotes by Norman Mailer. Plus more from Norman Mailer and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/norman-mailer-839_boys_goldstein-you-d-be-a-pretty-good-boy-if_919265.png" --- > [“Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/goldstein-you-d-be-a-pretty-good-boy-if-you-wasn-t-so-chicken/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/norman-mailer-839_boys_goldstein-you-d-be-a-pretty-good-boy-if_919265.png) > [The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/the-fact-that-we-ve-been-a-great-democracy-doesn-t-mean-we-will/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b53/norman-mailer-839_democracy_the-fact-that-we-ve-been-a-great-democra_3129136.png) > [I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-always-start-a-book-for-money-if-you-re-married-five-times-you-have/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e13/norman-mailer-839_book_i-always-start-a-book-for-money-if-you-r_2446932.png) > [What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/what-were-the-phenomena-of-the-world-today-if-i-knew-little-else-i/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfc/norman-mailer-839_answers_what-were-the-phenomena-of-the-world-tod_586109.png) > [I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-become-an-actor-a-quick-change-artist-as-if-i-can-trap-the-prince/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d3/norman-mailer-839_actors_i-become-an-actor-a-quick-change-artist_921728.png) > [Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/short-term-amnesia-is-not-the-worst-affliction-if-you-have-an-irish/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/473/norman-mailer-839_affliction_short-term-amnesia-is-not-the-worst-affl_88390.png) > [If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/if-only-gravity-were-working-the-path-would-be-symmetrical-it-is-the/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b50/norman-mailer-839_curves_if-only-gravity-were-working-the-path-wo_1716510.png) > [What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/what-s-the-use-of-being-a-writer-if-you-can-t-irritate-a-great-many/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e60/norman-mailer-839_great-man_what-s-the-use-of-being-a-writer-if-you_1333502.png) > [I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-would-introduce-myself-if-it-were-not-useless-the-name-i-had-last/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00b/norman-mailer-839_identity_i-would-introduce-myself-if-it-were-not_59218.png) > [Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/is-one-human-or-merely-alive-like-a-blade-of-grass-equal-to-all/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cf/norman-mailer-839_alive_is-one-human-or-merely-alive-like-a-blad_1442552.jpg) > [If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/if-god-is-all-good-then-he-is-not-all-powerful-if-god-is-all-powerful/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/norman-mailer-839_believe_if-god-is-all-good-then-he-is-not-all-po_836619.jpg) > [Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/love-is-simple-to-understand-if-you-haven-t-got-a-mind-soft-and-full/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc2/norman-mailer-839_crutches_love-is-simple-to-understand-if-you-have_468204.png) > [I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-don-t-trust-a-man-who-uses-the-word-evil-eighteen-times-in-ten/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39b/norman-mailer-839_don-t-trust_i-don-t-trust-a-man-who-uses-the-word-ev_2947027.png) > [Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/over-the-years-i-ve-found-one-rule-it-is-the-only-one-i-give-on-those/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e94/norman-mailer-839_asking_over-the-years-i-ve-found-one-rule-it-is_418416.jpg) > [America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself. Has there ever been a big, powerful country that is as patriotic as America?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/america-has-an-almost-obscene-infatuation-with-itself-has-there-ever/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a7/norman-mailer-839_america_america-has-an-almost-obscene-infatuatio_1659004.jpg) > [I really gave up being passionate about politics 10, 15, 20 years ago, because I think finally that there were forces in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-really-gave-up-being-passionate-about-politics-10-15-20-years-ago/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce2/norman-mailer-839_ball-game_i-really-gave-up-being-passionate-about_2796886.jpg) > [When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/when-you-know-too-much-information-and-you-acquire-it-too-easily-you/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de4/norman-mailer-839_acquire_when-you-know-too-much-information-and-y_3145295.png) > [The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/the-nightmare-in-every-democracy-the-very-nightmare-is-if-it-gets/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/109/norman-mailer-839_democracy_the-nightmare-in-every-democracy-the-ver_1278697.png) > [I've made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-ve-made-an-ass-of-myself-so-many-times-i-often-wonder-if-i-am-one/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60d/norman-mailer-839_ass_i-ve-made-an-ass-of-myself-so-many-times_1220785.png) > [If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/if-you-can-change-style-why-stick-to-one-style-style-is-a-vanity/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc6/norman-mailer-839_fashion_if-you-can-change-style-why-stick-to-one_1654133.png) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Norman Mailer > [Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/conservatives-are-people-who-look-at-a-tree-and-feel-instinctively/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/there-s-a-subterranean-impetus-towards-pornography-so-powerful-that/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/so-the-blind-will-lead-the-blind-and-the-deaf-shout-warnings-to-one/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/writing-for-a-newspaper-is-like-running-a-revolutionary-war-you-go-to/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-would-introduce-myself-if-it-were-not-useless-the-name-i-had-last/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [“City Point is so beautiful, she says. In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/city-point-is-so-beautiful-she-says-in-the-night-they-cannot-see-the/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-find-it-s-more-fun-to-write-about-something-that-you-don-t-know/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/short-term-amnesia-is-not-the-worst-affliction-if-you-have-an-irish/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/part-of-the-oncoming-demise-of-new-york-during-its-terrible-fiscal/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-have-always-had-this-very-strong-call-it-a-feeling-call-it-a/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-do-believe-that-america-s-deepest-political-sickness-is-that-it-is/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/america-is-a-hurricane-and-the-only-people-who-do-not-hear-the-sound/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/armstrong-sitting-in-the-commander-s-seat-spacesuit-on-helmet-on/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-was-thinking-that-surgeons-had-to-be-the-happiest-people-on-earth/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/movies-are-more-likely-than-literature-to-reach-deep-feelings-in/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/norman-mailer/#itemlist", "name": "20 Ifs Quotes By Norman Mailer", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Norman Mailer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/goldstein-you-d-be-a-pretty-good-boy-if-you-wasn-t-so-chicken/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/norman-mailer-839_boys_goldstein-you-d-be-a-pretty-good-boy-if_919265.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/norman-mailer-839_boys_goldstein-you-d-be-a-pretty-good-boy-if_919265.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/norman-mailer-839_boys_goldstein-you-d-be-a-pretty-good-boy-if_919265.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.” — Norman Mailer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Norman Mailer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/the-fact-that-we-ve-been-a-great-democracy-doesn-t-mean-we-will/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b53/norman-mailer-839_democracy_the-fact-that-we-ve-been-a-great-democra_3129136.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b53/norman-mailer-839_democracy_the-fact-that-we-ve-been-a-great-democra_3129136.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b53/norman-mailer-839_democracy_the-fact-that-we-ve-been-a-great-democra_3129136.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep…” — Norman Mailer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I always start a book for money. 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