"Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It……" — Norman Mailer

"Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual."

— Norman Mailer

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160 Quotes by Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer has 160 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing…
In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the…
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
Boredom slays more of existence than war.
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative…
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new…
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a…
At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do…
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary…
Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did… — John Adams
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as… — Saint Basil
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious… — Jack Benny
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the… — Alfred Adler
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. — Alfred Adler
Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to… — Annie Besant
I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects,… — Bono
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. — Edmund Burke
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of… — George W. Bush

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