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Norman Mailer Quotes about Life

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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.

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.

Norman Mailer
Love, Life, Change
1959 'Hip, Hell, and The Navigator', in Western Review, no. 23, Winter.

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”

There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without me. And then there are days when I wake up and I say, 'Don't kid yourself. Your contribution was minimal. You changed very little. Everything you hated prospered'.

Norman Mailer
Life, Kids, Thinking

Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.

Norman Mailer
Life, Pain, Alive
Norman Mailer (2013). “Ancient Evenings: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

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