Murder Quote by Norman Mailer Download Open image “Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.” — Norman Mailer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Murder Offers Promise Relief
“After all, killing is the ultimate expression of hatred and fear, as sex is the ultimate expression of romantic love and desire. And, as with sex, killing a stranger who has otherwise provoked no emotion is inherently unnatural. I suppose you could say that a man who kills a stranger is not unlike a woman who has sex under analogous… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications. — Janice Raymond Copy Share Image
Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society. — Pat Brown Copy Share Image
As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people. — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder. — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“City Point is so beautiful, she says. In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I find it’s more fun to write about something that you don’t know completely and that you will discover on route. A dear friend… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero. — Ramman Kenoun Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
[P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious Milosevic-era crimes. — Avis Bohlen Copy Share Image
“Carol, a swing-shift cocktail waitress in the Bird of Paradise's show lounge had gotten home (guesswork, here) around 2:15 - 2:30, poured herself a… — Jeff Rice Copy Share Image
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“It seems to me, that you people spend a great deal of time talking about honour, but strip away the high sounding words and… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
“You don’t look like much, but they say you murdered that other chick.” Treating Murder” — Gabrielle Black Copy Share Image