Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled. — 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
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
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 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'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. — 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 century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural… — 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
Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself… — 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
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
A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Even an evil man can have principleshe can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man.… — 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
