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 really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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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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I can't explain my feelings, I love the run-up and the stadium here.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.
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Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.
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There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.
