Quote

Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic San Francisco is a lady

Norman Mailer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
Actor
Biographer
Essayist
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Historian
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Long Branch
New Jersey
Norman Kingsley Mailer
Andreas Wilson
World
Plastic
Chicago
Lady
York
Capitals
City
Constellation
Cities
Constellations
American
Francisco
Great
Angeles

More quotes by Norman Mailer

Image
I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.
Norman Mailer
Image
So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.
Norman Mailer
Image
For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.
Norman Mailer
Image
I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.
Norman Mailer
Image
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
Norman Mailer
Image
Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.
Norman Mailer
Image
The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.
Norman Mailer
Image
The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.
Norman Mailer
Image
The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.
Norman Mailer
Image
Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.
Norman Mailer
Image
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman Mailer
Image
The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
Norman Mailer
Image
The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.
Norman Mailer
Image
Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.
Norman Mailer
Image
You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.
Norman Mailer
Image
Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that Nobody is any better than he ought to be.... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock.
Norman Mailer
Image
What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.
Norman Mailer
Image
Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.
Norman Mailer
Image
Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.
Norman Mailer
Image
Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.
Norman Mailer