Quotes by Norman Mailer

“rip the prisonsopenput theconvictsontelevision”

“Let everywritertell hisownliesThat's freedomof thepress.”

“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 rou...”

“I'm not interested in absolute moral judgments. Just think of what it means to be a good man or a bad one. What, after all, is the measure of difference? The good guy may be 65 per cent good and 35...”

“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away”

“How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse.”

“Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart”

“Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop.”

“There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe)”

“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”

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

“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.”

“In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.”

“The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.”

“About a week after they had come back, a load of mail came to the island. They were the first letters the men had received in several weeks, and for a night it relieved the changeless pattern of th...”

“Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.”

“It is not uncommon for fighters camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. Fighters are supposed to. The boredom creates an im...”

“Let the passions and cupidities and dreams and kinks and ideals and greed and hopes and foul corruptions of all men and women have their day and the world will still be better off, for there is mor...”

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

“As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.”