Best Norman Mailer Sayings
- The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. All
- For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we suddenly… Arms
- Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the… Asks
- It all comes down to who does the dishes. All
- Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write. Lifestyle
- Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. All
- I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles Crossword
- To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how… Abuse
- Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always… Barely
- In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend… Aids
- There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be. Inspirational
- It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. Brilliant
- The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. Art
- Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual. Murder
- Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer. Answer
- Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is the man who is not only a machine… Apollo
- Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. Anti
- Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs. All
- The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less… All
- The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a… Apocalypse
- The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since… Been
- In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death. Celebration
- People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much. Capacities
- I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told… Cut
- Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist. Building
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