Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailerwas an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948. His best-known work was widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, which was published in 1979, and for which he won one of his two Pulitzer Prizes. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, his book Armies of the Night was awarded the National Book Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 January 1923
CityLong Branch, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.
Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.
What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?
We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.
I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.
Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207
We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.