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Letter "N" » Norman Mailer Quotes
«Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.»
Author: Norman Mailer
«Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.»
«There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.»
Author: Norman Mailer
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«I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.»
«There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.»
«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.»
Author: Norman Mailer
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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.»
«Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.»
«I felt something shift to murder in me. I felt that I was an outlaw, a psychic outlaw, and I liked it.»
«Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.»
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