Mailer Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the…
— Maya Angelou
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I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they…
— Mike Tyson
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Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.
— Truman Capote
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What does this mean 'mailer daemon'? Satan, are you messing with the e-mail system already?
— Herbert Jay Stern
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Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend…
— Matthew Barney
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Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.
— Susan Sontag
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Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training,…
— Susan Sontag
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It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't…
— Germaine Greer
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Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
— Ken Kesey
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I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.
— Danielle Steel
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My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
— James Wolcott
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What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The…
— James Wolcott
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Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security…
— Anthony Bourdain
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How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him.
— Frances Fisher
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I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however,…
— Steven Hatfill
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How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.
— Gloria Steinem
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The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.
— Jerry Kramer
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Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.
— William F Buckley
Who Wrote These Mailer Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Mailer Quotes as follows: