All Norman Mailer Quotes
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.
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Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.
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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
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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.
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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
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Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
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There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
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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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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.
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God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.
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