Author: Norman Mailer

Quotes

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

- Norman Mailer

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

- Norman Mailer

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

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

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.

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

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

- Norman Mailer

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

- Norman Mailer

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

- Norman Mailer

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