Norman Mailer Quotes & Quotations

Norman Mailer Quotes

» Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

» The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.

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

» I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

» In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

» Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

» Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

» What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

» I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

» Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

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