Norman Mailer Short Quotes

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The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

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There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

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To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

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

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Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

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You should know more about human nature every year of your life.

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Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing

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

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Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

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In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.

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This is D. J., Disc Jockey to America turning off. Vietnam, hot dam.

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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

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Most men become men at the cost of a certain innate sense of decency.

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Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

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For me violent moments are always existential moments. They are crucial.

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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

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We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.

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There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have not sentiment.

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You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

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Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

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Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak. Hula, hula, said the witches.

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

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

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Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

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Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

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The only true journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.

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