Quotes by Norman Mailer

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. (Norman Mailer)

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. (Norman Mailer)

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. (Norman Mailer)

Every moment of ones existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. (Norman Mailer)

Every moment of ones existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. (Norman Mailer)

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. (Norman Mailer)

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)

I hate everything which is not in myself. (Norman Mailer)

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. (Norman Mailer)

Im hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. (Norman Mailer)