Quotes by Mailer, Norman

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awake >>

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be. >>

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul. >>

Quotations about Modern and Modernism

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in >>

Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the >>

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided >>

The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.

Mailer, Norman