Mailer Quotes

“Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.
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― Norman Mailer, The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker & Bad Conscience in America

“In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.”
― Norman Mailer, Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man

“I heard from clear across the city, over the Hudson in the Jersey yards, one fierce whistle of a locomotive which took me to a train late at night hurling through the middle of the West, its iron shriek blighting the darkness. One hundred years before, some first trains had torn through the prairie and their warning had congealed the nerve. "Beware," said the sound. "Freeze in your route. Behind this machine comes a century of maniacs and a heat which looks to consume the earth." What a rustling those first animals must have known.”
― Norman Mailer, An American Dream

“Aukeman quotes Norman Mailer:
"No wonder then that these have been the years of conformity and depression. A stench of fear has come out of every pore of American life and we suffer from a collective failure or nerve. The only courage, with rare exceptions, that we have been witness to, has been the isolated courage of isolated people." Welcome to Painterland (2016) Chapter 4, p.108”
― Anastasia Aukeman, Welcome to Painterland: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association