#m

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#companion #does #each #horse #other

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#become #combinations #grasp #had #hold

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#cannot #children #divorce #finally #first

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

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