Norman Mailer Quotes

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

  Norman Mailer

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• We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

  Norman Mailer

• The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

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• America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

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• Dying cant be all that difficult, up to now everyone has managed to do it.

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

  Norman Mailer

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• I think it’s bad to talk about one’s present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

  Norman Mailer

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

  Norman Mailer

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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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