Best Norman Mailer Lines
- Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can… Achieve
- The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture Emotion
- Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart Dungeon
- I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind Blind
- Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego. Block
- One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can… All
- The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent. Look
- Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon Bright
- Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207 Doom
- I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially… All
- Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. Any
- We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we… All
- The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is… Changes
- You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of… Achieved
- There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the… All
- You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant. Conformity
- You don't know a woman until you've met her in court. Court
- Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children. Children
- The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul. Desire
- I guess all that's left is to love the fire. All
- When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are. Ask
- Every one of my books had killed me a little more. Book
- No heart is so hard as the timid heart. Funny
- The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other. Each
- Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it. Believe
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