Norman Mailer Quotes

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

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

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• Those who live in the past limit their future.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Norman Mailer (68)

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

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