Norman Mailer Quotes
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.



Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.



In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.



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.



Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.



Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.



With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance.



Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.



Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.



The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.








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