Quotes by Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

American writer

Lived from: 1923 - 2007

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 31 january 1923 Died: 10 november 2007

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  • The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
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  • The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
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  • The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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  • There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
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  • There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
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  • 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.
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  • What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
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  • Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
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