Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailerwas an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948. His best-known work was widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, which was published in 1979, and for which he won one of his two Pulitzer Prizes. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, his book Armies of the Night was awarded the National Book Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 January 1923
CityLong Branch, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
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I guess all that's left is to love the fire.
Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.
You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.
What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?
Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.
You have the right to speak your mind.
When considering regulations, half of what is published is probably 50 % incorrect. The rest is 75 % wrong.