#w

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#else #grow #just #law #life

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#closest #come #ever #men #writing

I hate everything which is not in myself. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#hate #i #myself #which

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#history #make #men #sentiments #their

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#each #event #horror #new #reverberation

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#democracy #discovers #far #go #how

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#cheats #day #each #eat #few

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves. ↗

— Errico Malatesta

#people #themselves #want

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