Norman Mailer

Alimony is the curse of the writing class. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#class #curse #writing

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#american life #american men #because #built-in #certain

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#culture #huge #risks #totalitarian #without

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#conceived #destiny #extraordinary #god #him

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

— Norman Mailer

#hip #jungle #primitive #sophistication #wise

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#act #bad #creative #creative act #i

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#cats #cockroaches #horses #hostile #i

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#few #few people #irreverent #people #trust

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#good #good idea #idea #into #latest

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#facts #forever #lost #newspaper #once