“ Either the century was entrenching itself more deeply into the absurd, or the absurd was delivering evidence that it was possessed of some of the nutritive mysteries of a marrow which would yet feed t… Norman Mailer
“ Certain kinds of honor could not be lost without demanding that one consecrate oneself thereafter—no matter how unsuited and unprepared—to a life of revenge. I Norman Mailer
“ The Waldorf looked like one of the dead and empty spaces which collect about the exit of a man who has lost a million in an hour. Norman Mailer
“ Είναι μάλλον φανερό απ' όσα είπα έως τώρα ότι όχι μόνο είμαι υπαρξιστής, αλλά φτάνω και στο σημείο να πω ότι δεν γνωρίζουμε τη φύση μας. Απλώς μαθαίνουμε τον εαυτό μας όσο ζούμε τη ζωή μας. Και όσο μα… Norman Mailer
“ But when the call came from Shirley Pedler to help in organizing the Utah Coalition Against the Death Penalty, she knew she would go out in the world again with her freaky blond hair, blond to everyon… Norman Mailer
“ The mark of a truly stupid man, he announced to Klara, is that he takes his own occupation so seriously that he comes to believe it is superior to others. Norman Mailer
“ That was how the tears went down Cherry's face...a teaspoon full of ten years' sorrow. Norman Mailer
“ Maybe all illness results from a failure of communication between mind and body. It is certainly true of such quick disease as a knockout. Norman Mailer
“ Margaret is kindled by it, exalted for a time, sees it as passion, glows and becomes rounded, but only for a time. After a year it is completely naked, apparent to her, that he is alone, that he fight… Norman Mailer
“ He was full of love—for himself, first, and his prowess—such a fine power at his age. Then, he felt a degree of love for her— Norman Mailer
“ Finally he said, I like everything that wild Irish maniac, J. P. Donleavy, ever wrote. It wasn’t so much a discussion as a sharing of taste. He also liked The Agony and the Ecstasy and Lust for Life b… Norman Mailer
“ And they were always young, Air Corps pilots and ensigns, and good-looking girls in fur coats, and always the government secretary or two, the working girl as a carry-over from the fraternity parties… Norman Mailer
“ I think it's bad to talk about one's present work for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. Norman Mailer
“ Country people do not have enough to do with their minds. Their backs are strong, but their lives—year after year, it is the same. They are tired of being bored. So they start to think about the wrong… Norman Mailer
“ You, Lowell, beloved poet of many, what do you know of the dirt and the dark deliveries of the necessary? What do you know of dignity hard-achieved, and dignity lost through innocence, and dignity los… Norman Mailer
“ You let everything stand until it's knocked over and then you go over and write your own ruins Norman Mailer
“ Yeah, fighting a war to fix something works about as good as going to a whorehouse to get rid of a clap. Norman Mailer
“ We find, therefore, Lowell and Mailer ostensibly locked in converse. In fact, out of the thousand separate enclaves of their very separate personalities, they sensed quickly that they now shared one e… Norman Mailer
