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Norman Mailer

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

– Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

– Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

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.

– Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

– Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

I hate everything which is not in myself.

– Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

– Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

– Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

– Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

I’m hostile to men, I’m hostile to women, I’m hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I’m afraid of horses.

– Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

– Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

– Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

I think it’s bad to talk about one’s present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

– Norman Mailer

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