The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man… — 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
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
“Listen my love the hour is late my side has an ache If you don't get a taxi my heart will break” — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way -… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I was in love with a beautiful, brilliant girl who was married to the most elegant and incisive gent I had ever… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“And in the complicated, relished, introspective web of young lovers, or more exactly, young petters, they progress along the oldest channel in… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a… — 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
I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is… — 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
