Norman Mailer Quotes

• Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.

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

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• Writing a best-seller with conscious intent to do so is, after all, a state of mind that is not without comparison to the act of marrying for money only to discover that the absence of love is more onerous that anticipated.

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• When a novel comes, it’s a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

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• All the security around the American President is just to make sure the man who shoots him gets caught.

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• The true religion of America has always been America.

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• No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.

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• So we think of Marilyn who was every man’s love affair with America, Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.

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• The surest way not to be remembered is to talk about the way you want to be.

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• There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

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• A high church for the true mediocre.

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• There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

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• The Naked and the Dead.

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• Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

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• There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

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• Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

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• The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they’re trying to recapture.

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  Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

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• If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

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• I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one’s mind.

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Norman Mailer (68)

Birth:	31st January, 1923
Death:	10th November, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Filmmaker, Novelist, Playwriter

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