Norman Mailer Quotes

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• We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.

  Norman Mailer

  Cute, Cute Friendship

  NORMAN MAILER (1983). “ANCIENT EVENINGS”

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• I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

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  People, Childhood, Grace

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

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  Men, Literature, Action

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Deer Park: A Novel”, p.200, Random House

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• Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

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  Confused, Groups, Answers

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• To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

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  Taken, Government, Judging

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• Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

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  Mean, Care, Littles

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

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  Eugenics, Suffering, Levels

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• The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

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  Looks, Mediocrity, Precedent

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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.

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  Inspirational, Law, Literature

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.389, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

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  Thinking, Waste, Wasting Time

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• I've made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one.

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  Wonder, Ass, Made

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• You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.

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  Court, Mets, Knows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it comes to defending that tree against a highway, they will go for the highway.

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  Beautiful, Names, People

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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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  Stupid, Eye, White

  1959 Advertisements for Myself,'Advertisement for "Games and Ends"'.

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• Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.

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  Love Is, Men, Thinking

  News Summaries, December 31, 1969.

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• The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.

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  Heart, Knowledge, Journey

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.17, Random House

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• Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart

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  Heart, Dungeons, Harsh

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Gospel According to the Son: A Novel”, p.114, Random House

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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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  Knowing, World, Wave

  "The Armies of the Night". Book by Norman Mailer, 1968.

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

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  Book, Writing, Men

  1965 'Mr Mailer Interviews Himself', in the NewYork Times Book Review,17 Sep.

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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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  Love, Life, Change

  1959 'Hip, Hell, and The Navigator', in Western Review, no. 23, Winter.

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• The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

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  Soul, Secret, Desire

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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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  War, Support, Reason

  "Mr. Mailer Concludes". Interview with Zachary Klein, zacharykleinonline.com. July 29, 2013.

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• Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

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  Real, Writing, Mean

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• When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

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  Kind, Jew, Asks

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• The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

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  Two, Intense, Narcissist

  Norman Mailer (2003). “The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing”, p.134, Random House

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