I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's… — 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
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
“It is virtually not assimilable to our reason that a small lonely man felled a giant in the midst of his limousines,… — 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
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
Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how… — 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
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