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Quotes from The Presidential Papers — Norman Mailer

1923–2007 United States

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In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

The Presidential Papers (1963)

I would guess that most men who understand women at all feel hostility toward them. At their worst, women are low sloppy beasts.

The Presidential Papers (1963)

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

The Presidential Papers (1963)

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

The Presidential Papers (1963)

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

The Presidential Papers (1963)

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

The Presidential Papers (1963)

Attribution

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