One is hip or one is square, one is a rebel or one conforms, one is a frontiersman in the Wild West of American night life, or else a square cell, trapped in the totalitarian tissues of American society, doomed willy-nilly to conform if one is to succeed.


The White Negro, 1957

Norman Mailer Quotes

One is hip or one is square, one is a rebel or one conforms, one is a frontiersman in the Wild West of American night life, or else a square cell,...

One is hip or one is square, one is a rebel or one conforms, one is a frontiersman in the Wild West of American night life, or else a square cell,...

One is hip or one is square, one is a rebel or one conforms, one is a frontiersman in the Wild West of American night life, or else a square cell,...

One is hip or one is square, one is a rebel or one conforms, one is a frontiersman in the Wild West of American night life, or else a square cell,...