Quote

Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

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
Bankrupted
Armaments
Armament
Reagan
Increasing
Soviet
Union
Unions

More quotes by Norman Mailer

Image
There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.
Norman Mailer
Image
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
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
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.
Norman Mailer
Image
We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.
Norman Mailer
Image
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.
Norman Mailer
Image
Cancer is the growth of madness denied.
Norman Mailer
Image
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
Norman Mailer
Image
It all comes down to who does the dishes.
Norman Mailer
Image
While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.
Norman Mailer
Image
When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.
Norman Mailer
Image
I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
Norman Mailer
Image
The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.
Norman Mailer
Image
Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.
Norman Mailer
Image
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
Norman Mailer
Image
The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.
Norman Mailer
Image
I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.
Norman Mailer
Image
Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.
Norman Mailer
Image
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.
Norman Mailer
Image
Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the greatest crimes ever committed were committed in bed. And no weapons were used.
Norman Mailer