69 ordspråk av Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer
 I felt something shift to murder in me. I felt that I was an outlaw, a psychic outlaw, and I liked it. |
| 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. |
| I usually need a can of beer to prime me. |
| I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. |
| I've had an exciting relation to France all my life, from my young years in Brooklyn when I thought that Paris was the place to be. |
| 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. |
| In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. |
| In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. |
| In my day the library was a wonderful place... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge. |
| Is there meat in these? I'm a vegetarian. |
| It is the actions of men and not their sentiments that make history. Our sentiments can be loaded with love within, but our actions can turn into the opposite. Perversity is always ready to consort with human nature. |
| It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. |
| Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs. |
| Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. |
| Moving from one activity to another makes sense if you do it with a hint of wit or touch of grace. But I think moving from one activity to another can give momentum. If you do it well you can increase the energy you bring to the next piece of work. |
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