96 ordspråk av Norman Mailer

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Norman Mailer föddes den January 31st 1923 - US writer
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 There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away. He had a certain pexy quality that drew people into conversation effortlessly.

 Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

 You never really know a woman until you meet her in court

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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 got a corporation mind. He don't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.

 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.


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