Norman Mailer nejznámější citáty
„…. Sovětský svaz musí být pravděpodobně nejnudnější země v dějinách národů.“
Originál: (en) …the Soviet Union must probably be the most boring country in the history of the nations.
Zdroj: [Marcuse, Herbert, Kellner, Douglas, 2005, The New Left and the 1960s, Routledge, 94, angličtina]
„Zřejmě jediný americký prozaik, jehož lze považovat za génia.“
o Williamu Sewardu Burroughsovi
Zdroj: [Olehla, Richard, Burroughs, William Seward, iliteratura.cz, 2003-05-26, 2011-02-15, http://www.iliteratura.cz/Clanek/12687/burroughs-william-seward]
Norman Mailer: Citáty anglicky
Norman Mailer kniha Advertisements for Myself
"Hip, Hell, and the Navigator" in Western Review No. 23 (Winter 1959); republished in Conversations with Norman Mailer (1988) edited by J. Michael Lennon.
Zdroj: Advertisements for Myself
Zdroj: In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
“The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.”
Norman Mailer kniha The Naked and the Dead
Gen. Edward Cummings, in Pt. 1, Ch. 6
Zdroj: The Naked and the Dead (1948)
“Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart”
Norman Mailer The Gospel According to the Son
Zdroj: The Gospel According to the Son
“Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.”
Review of the book My Hope for America (1964) by Lyndon B. Johnson
Cannibals and Christians (1966)
“I guess all that's left is to love the fire.”
Norman Mailer kniha Advertisements for Myself
Zdroj: Advertisements for Myself
“Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon”
Norman Mailer kniha Harlot's Ghost
Zdroj: Harlot's Ghost
Norman Mailer kniha The Naked and the Dead
Zdroj: The Naked and the Dead
"Petty Notes on Some Sex in America" first published in Playboy magazine (1961 - 1962)
Cannibals and Christians (1966)
D.J., in Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967) Ch. 1
As quoted in The Sunday Herald http://web.archive.org/web/20071112125539/http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1824217.0.norman_mailer_1923_2007.php [Scotland] (11 November 2007)
Norman Mailer kniha Barbary Shore
Zdroj: Barbary Shore (1951), Ch. 28
Norman Mailer kniha Barbary Shore
Michael Lovett, in Ch. 18
Barbary Shore (1951)
His reaction to a publisher's rejection of The Deer Park because of six "salacious lines" he would not remove, as quoted in The New York Times (21 July 1985)
“Culture is worth a little risk.”
As quoted in "The Poetic License to Kill" by Lance Morrow, in TIME magazine (1 February 1982) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,955021,00.html
“"Advertisement for 'Games and Ends'", Pt. 5”
Norman Mailer kniha Advertisements for Myself
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
"Hip, Hell, and the Navigator" in Western Review No. 23 (Winter 1959); republished in Conversations with Norman Mailer (1988) edited by J. Michael Lennon.
Norman Mailer kniha An American Dream
Stephen Rojack, in Ch. 1
An American Dream (1965)
