Norman Mailer Quotes about Cancer

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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor

We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.

Norman Mailer

Life, Nature, Cancer

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

Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is thegrowth of madness denied.

Norman Mailer

Cancer, Cells, Mad

Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.254, Random House