Norman Mailer Quotes

• The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

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• The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

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• Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

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• Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

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

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• With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

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• The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

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• I’m hostile to men, I’m hostile to women, I’m hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I’m afraid of horses.

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• You never really know a woman until you meet her in court.

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• You don’t know a women till you’ve met her in court.

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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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• He got a corporation mind. He don’t believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.

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• Those who live in the past limit their future.

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• Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

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• It’s not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

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• Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

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

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• Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

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

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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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