Norman Mailer Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Norman Mailer quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased novelist born on Jan 31, 1923). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 43 we have for him.
“The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.”
“The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.”
“America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.”
“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.”
“It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.”
“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.”
“Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.”
“The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.”
“The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.”
“Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.”
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