Quotes by : Norman Mailer

We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless....

I'm not interested in absolute moral judgments. Just think of what it means to be a good man or a bad....

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

I tell you, say the rich,the poor are naughtbut dirty windwelling in air-shaftsover the cindersand droppings....

I heard from clear across the city, over the Hudson in the Jersey yards, one fierce whistle of a locomotive....

Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the....

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than....

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide not murder.

As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.