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Quotes from Cannibals and Christians — Norman Mailer

1923–2007 United States

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We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art.

Cannibals and Christians (1966)

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

Cannibals and Christians (1966)

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.

Cannibals and Christians (1966)

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Cannibals and Christians (1966)

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

Cannibals and Christians (1966)

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

Cannibals and Christians (1966)

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

Cannibals and Christians (1966)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Norman Mailer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.