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The mark of mediocrity is to ...

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

I really am a pessimist. I've...

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.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

The horror of the Twentieth C...

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

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

The difference between writin...

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Once a newspaper touches a st...

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

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

With the pride of the artist,...

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Revolutions are the periods o...

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

It's not a good idea to put y...

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

God like Us suffers the ambit...

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Ultimately a hero is a man wh...

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 274 quotes

It's not the sentiments of me...

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

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

We can never know for certain...

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.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Writing books is the closest ...

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Each day a few more lies eat ...

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

There are four stages in a ma...

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Masculinity is not something ...

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Growth, in some curious way, ...

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

I had a quick grasp of the se...

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

I don't think life is absurd....

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Every moment of one's existen...

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.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

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