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Norman Mailer Quotes about Children

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I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I

I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

Norman Mailer
Children, Real, War

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Norman Mailer
Photography, Children, Hands
Newsweek, October 22, 1984.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Norman Mailer
Baby, Children, Book
1971 'The Siege of Mailer: Hero to Historian', in Village Voice, 21 Jan.

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

Norman Mailer
Children, Philosophy, Existentialism

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Norman Mailer
Children, Divorce, Cynical
News Summaries, December 31, 1969.

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