Norman Mailer cytaty

strona 6

„Gdy kobieta już dostatecznie długo była naga, patrzy się znowu na jej twarz.”

„Komputery to najmądrzejsi kretyni.”

„Nie jest dobrym pomysłem umieszczanie swojej żony w powieści. Przynajmniej nie aktualnej żony.”

„Miłość bliźniego nie byłaby tak utrudniona, gdyby ten bliźni nie był tak blisko.”

„Rzadko kiedy czasy są surowsze niż ludzie.”

„Wyłączenie telewizora da się porównać jedynie z uczuciem błogości przy gaszeniu lampki nocnej.”

“Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.”

“I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.”

“I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life. … Every time I get totally discouraged with this country, I remind myself, "No, the fact is that finally we can really say what we think, and some extraordinary things have come out of that."”

“Then vote for him the boss will if he must; he cannot be caught on the wrong side, but he does not feel the pleasure of a personal choice. Which is the center of the panic.”

“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.”

“Hitler … was a hero, the hero-as-monster, embodying what had become the monstrous fantasy of a people, but the horror upon which the radical mind and liberal temperament foundered was that he gave outlet to the energies of the Germans and so presented the twentieth century with an index of how horrible had become the secret heart of its desire.”

“America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.”

“The only true journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.”

“Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.”

“When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.”

“All too often men with physical courage are disappointing in their moral imagination.”

“Everyone from the meanest starving cripple to an ambitious young man could expand to the optimism of an improving future because the man offered an unspoken promise of a future which would be rich.”

“I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it. I get angry at it. I feel close to it. I'm charmed by it. I'm repelled by it. And it's a marriage that's gone on for let's say at least 50 years of my writing life, and in the course of that, what's happened? It's gotten worse. It's not what it used to be.”

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