Norman Mailer

Born 31 January 1923 · Died 10 November 2007

From Long Branch, New Jersey, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes fiction and nonfiction

Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director.

Quotes

“Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”
"Hip, Hell, and the Navigator" in Western Review No. 23 Winter 1959 ; republish
“The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.”
Part 1
“A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.”
The Naked and the Dead, Chapter 6
“Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.”
Advertisements for Myself
“There’s that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.”
The Naked and the Dead, Chapter 11