"The world's not what I want it to……" — Norman Mailer

"The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world."

— 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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More Design Quotes

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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating… — Giorgio Armani
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and… — Lance Armstrong
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions… — Mary Astell
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be… — Marcus Aurelius
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete… — Douglas Adams
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks

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