69 ordspråk av Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer
 No, actually, there's salmon in those. |
| Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. |
| One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago. |
| One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others. |
| Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen. |
| Political leaders and statesmen are serious men even when they appear to be fools, and it is rare to find them acting without some deeper reason they can offer to themselves. |
| Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. |
| Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. |
| somewhere between crime and art. |
| The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul |
| The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul |
| The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. |
| The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. |
| The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. |
| The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you. |
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