People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations… — 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… — 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
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Yeah, fighting a war to fix something works about as good as going to a whorehouse to get rid of a clap.” — 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
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
One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Margaret is kindled by it, exalted for a time, sees it as passion, glows and becomes rounded, but only for a time.… — 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
