Best Norman Mailer Words
- Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and… Activity
- I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the… Absurd
- Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. Battle
- Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little… Always Living
- The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. Eugenics
- There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. Cruel
- In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and… All
- Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. American
- Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. Book
- Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. Bit
- If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to… Becomes
- Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. Facts
- Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. Emotional
- We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we… Answers
- It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. Action
- The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. Century
- America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who… America
- I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. Ability
- Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock… Born
- There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot… Affair
- What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good… Awful
- Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. Giant
- The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test… Baby
- With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. Artist
- A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until… Borders
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