"Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who……" — Norman Mailer
"Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment."
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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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I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary…
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Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
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I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also…
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I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on…
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is…
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional…
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
— Roger Bannister
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I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard…
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you…
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Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.
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