Norman Mailer Quotes
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Quotes to Explore
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.
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In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'
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You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.
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Talent comes with an individual name tag.
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There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.
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Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.
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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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We hang in there with some pretty good basketball teams. (But) there is no substitute for experience. Young teams don't win against good teams.
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
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Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
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But I will be, A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed.
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A good book will give you answers to questions you didn't know you had. A great book will give you questions to answers you thought you knew.
