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Norman Mailer

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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.


— Norman Mailer


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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


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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






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The Castle in the Forest was awarded a Bad Sex in Fiction Award by the Literary Review magazine. He publiNorman Mailerd 11 novels over a 59-year span. "
The book was also enormously successful selling more copies than any of his works except The Naked and the Dead.

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize Mailer's book Armies of the Night was awarded the National Book Award. Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31 1923 – November 10 2007) was an American novelist journalist essayist playwright film maker actor and political candidate.

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