Best Norman Mailer Quotes
- I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential -… Artist
- 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 well the divisions… All
- I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered. Discovered
- We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped… Arms
- Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the… All
- Alimony is the curse of the writing class. Alimony
- Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. Arbus
- God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. Ambition
- Culture is worth a little risk, Culture
- I usually need a can of beer to prime me. Beer
- I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. Afraid
- There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a… Achieved
- The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. Blessing
- 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 in… Advertisements
- There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night. Alters
- Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment. Apocalyptic
- I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to. Always Start
- 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 me. And then… Advice
- Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is… Alive
- If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve. Curve
- The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the… Cities
- Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity; it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the greatest crimes ever… Activity
- 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 there isn't any… All
- The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. Arrive
- In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. America
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