Norman Mailer Quote

You carried it alone as long as you could, and then you weren't strong enough to take it any longer. You kept fighting everything, and everything broke you down, until in the end you were just a little goddam bolt holding on and squealing when the machine went too fast.


Pt. 3, Ch. 14 - The Naked and the Dead (1948)


You carried it alone as long as you could, and then you weren't strong enough to take it any longer. You kept fighting everything, and everything...

You carried it alone as long as you could, and then you weren't strong enough to take it any longer. You kept fighting everything, and everything...

You carried it alone as long as you could, and then you weren't strong enough to take it any longer. You kept fighting everything, and everything...

You carried it alone as long as you could, and then you weren't strong enough to take it any longer. You kept fighting everything, and everything...