Norman Mailer Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

  Norman Mailer

  Photography, Children, Hands

  Newsweek, October 22, 1984.

• Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.

  Norman Mailer

  Opportunity, Simple, Blood

• If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

  Norman Mailer

  Vanity, Giving, Style

• Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

  Norman Mailer

  Stars, Simple, Giving

  Norman Mailer (2016). “Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”, p.218, Random House

• The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

  Norman Mailer

  Running, Country, America

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

• I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give you compliments there's one of two things wrong with them. Either they're false, or what's worse is they're sincere. They really mean the compliment. And then they're offering you their loyalty. And I'm kind of a stingy... Well, I don't necessarily want to give all that loyalty back. So either way, let's skip the compliments.

  Norman Mailer

  Loyalty, Mean, Two

• Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you are going to be at your desk tomorrow, you are by that declaration asking your unconscious to prepare the material. You are, in effect, contracting to pick up such valuables at a given time. Count on me, you are saying to a few forces below: I will be there to write.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Simple, Years

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