Quotes By Norman Mailer

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

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.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

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.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

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.

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.