Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.
Norman Mailer
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Righteous
Nation
Nations
Political
America
Self
Believe
Deepest
Sickness
More quotes by Norman Mailer
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
I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
Norman Mailer
It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
Norman Mailer
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
Norman Mailer
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
There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.
Norman Mailer
People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.
Norman Mailer
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.
Norman Mailer
You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.
Norman Mailer
I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.
Norman Mailer
I hate everything which is not in myself.
Norman Mailer
The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
Norman Mailer
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
Norman Mailer
It all comes down to who does the dishes.
Norman Mailer
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Norman Mailer
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.
Norman Mailer
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
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
Norman Mailer
I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.
Norman Mailer
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Norman Mailer
