"I no longer gave a sick dog's drop……" — Norman Mailer
"I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing."
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160 Quotes by Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer has 160 quotes on this site.
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We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing…
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In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the…
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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
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Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative…
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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new…
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A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a…
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At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do…
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Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
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Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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I cannot stand authority.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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