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Famous Norman Mailer Quotes
“Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.”
Source: The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
Source: Marilyn: A Biography
Source: Conversations with Norman Mailer
“Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.”
“It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.”
Source: The Deer Park: A Novel
Source: An American Dream: A Novel
“Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.”
Source: The Deer Park: A Novel
Source: The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations
“The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.”
Source: The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author
“In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.”
“I hate everything which is not in myself.”
Source: The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author
“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”