41 Quotations by Norman Mailer
- 21. Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
- 22. Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small ...
- 23. Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
- 24. One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's ...
- 25. Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
- 26. The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.
- 27. The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a ...
- 28. The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness ...
- 29. The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
- 30. The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living the ...
- 31. The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverbera ...
- 32. The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smal ...
- 33. There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and ...
- 34. There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
- 35. There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democrac ...
- 36. There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juice ...
- 37. Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his visio ...
- 38. What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptio ...
- 39. When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
- 40. Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Norman Mailer Quotes by Power Quotations
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