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Norman Mailer Quotes - Page 3

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

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

The International Herald Tribune, January 24, 1992.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

Norman Mailer (2013). “The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author”, p.323, Henry Holt and Company

Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.14, Random House

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

Norman Mailer (1967). “The Deer Park: A Play”, New York : Dell

No heart is so hard as the timid heart.

Norman Mailer (2013). “The Gospel According to the Son: A Novel”, p.65, Random House