Quotes by Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

…never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.

Desire

Doctrine

Rejection

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…the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman – as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

Lying

Media

Requirements

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A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.

Book

Genius

Novelists

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A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They’re not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

Democracy

Goes On

People

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A high church for the true mediocre.

Church

Mediocre

Syndicate

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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.

Democracies Have

Freedom

Tyrants

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A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.

Army

Fighting

War

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A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation’s board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career-advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.

Fear

Fighting

Horse

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A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

Character

Men

Style

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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

Alimony

Class

Writing

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