"The mark of mediocrity is to look for…" — 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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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness… — Billie Joe Armstrong
I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is… — Karen Armstrong
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize… — Andrea Arnold
Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for… — Frank Abagnale
An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to… — John Ashcroft
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
All fat women look the same; they all look 42. — Margaret Atwood
I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed… — Margaret Atwood

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