41 Quotations by Norman Mailer
- 1. A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only b ...

- 2. America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredi ...

- 3. As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.

- 4. Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to de ...

- 5. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

- 6. Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors st ...

- 7. Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from th ...

- 8. Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always livi ...

- 9. Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

- 10. He got a corporation mind. He don't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.

- 11. Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

- 12. I felt something shift to murder in me. I felt that I was an outlaw, a psychic outlaw, and I liked i ...

- 13. I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creati ...

- 14. I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

- 15. I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of ho ...

- 16. If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands ...

- 17. In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. ...

- 18. In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

- 19. In my day the library was a wonderful place... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various pr ...

- 20. It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

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