There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Metaphor reveals a writer’s true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“We call it hypocrisy, but it is schizophrenia, a modest ranch-house life with Draconian military adventures; a land of equal opportunity where… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which… — 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
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Men who work at Time have a life expectancy which is not long said the young man from Newsweek” — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and… — 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
“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
“Tolstoy teaches us that compassion is of value and enriches our life only when compassion is severe, which is to say that… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The condition that is most disagreeable in your life becomes the most useful one. You know, I feel the same way about… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Having reshaped my words with an intensity of feeling I had not known before, I could not understand why others were not… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a… — 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
