The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. - Norman Mailer
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
- Norman Mailer
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 … - Norman Mailer
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 …
Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer. - Norman Mailer
Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. - Norman Mailer
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's recep… - Norman Mailer
One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's recep…
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… - Norman Mailer
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…
We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them. - Norman Mailer
We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
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 s… - Norman Mailer
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 s…
I've made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one. - Norman Mailer
I've made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one.
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