Norman Mailer Quotes About Creation

Quotes about: Creation

• 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.

  Norman Mailer

  Hero, Men, Vision

  Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”

• I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.

  Norman Mailer

  Love, Sacrifice, Loss

  Norman Mailer (2007). “Harlot's Ghost: A Novel”, p.65, Random House

• The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.

  Norman Mailer

  Sweet, Sex, Believe

  "Advertisements for Myself". Book by Norman Mailer, 1959.

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