69 ordspråk av Norman Mailer
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. |
| Alimony is the curse of the writing class |
| 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. |
| Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. |
| Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day |
| Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood. |
| Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. |
| Dying can’t be all that difficult, up to now everyone has managed to do it. |
| Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. |
| Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. |
| Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. |
| Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. |
| He bears an unmistakable resemblance to a cornered rat |
| He got a corporation mind. He don't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man. |
| Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. |
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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