Norman Mailer Quotes

• 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.

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• In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

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• Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

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• Culture’s worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we’re all totalitarian beasts.

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• We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

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• Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

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

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• Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

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• The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

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• You don’t know a woman until you have met her in court.

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• Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

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• There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same., so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

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• There are four stages in a marriage. First there’s the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

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• Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

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• Tough guys don’t dance. You had better believe it.

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

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• The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

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• A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

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• I hate everything which is not in myself.

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• God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

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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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