The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. Norman Mailer Read Quote
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one’s mind. Norman Mailer Read Quote
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. Norman Mailer Read Quote
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. Norman Mailer Read Quote
In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. Norman Mailer Read Quote
