List of Norman Mailer Quotes

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Norman Mailer
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Reagan bankrupted the soviet union by increasing armaments.
Unions Armament Soviet Union
God is a creator, not a law giver.
Law Giver Creator
There`s a tendency for americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.
Believe President Kind
The great power in america is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. we`re run by a ceo and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?
Running Country America
I really gave up being passionate about politics 10, 15, 20 years ago, because i think finally that there were forces in the country that are larger than politics itself. and so i find it a fascinating game, this wonderful stuff goes on in terms of watching the game. but if you get to down it, look, i`m going to root for someone, i`ll root at a football game, not for politicians.
Country Football Thinking
The condition that is most disagreeable in your life becomes the most useful one. you know, i feel the same way about the u.s. army. it was absolutely the worst experience of my life, and it was probably the single most valuable experience.
Army Way Worst
I don't read other writers because i'm writing all the time. it's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.
Writing Style Working Together
You have the right to speak your mind.
Speak Your Mind Mind Speak
For what does it mean to be a hero? it requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.
Hero Mean Doe
To make an army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... the army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.
Army Men Ladders
Is one human? or merely alive? like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? yes. if pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.
Life Pain Alive
On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the march mist, and i thought of the abnaki indians of the algonquin tribe who dwelt near bangor a thousand years ago.
Winter Fog Years
  • Born: January 31, 1923
  • Died: November 10, 2007
  • Occupation: Novelist
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