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Norman Kingsley Mailer [mejlr] byl americký spisovatel, svými reportážemi a reportážními romány se zařadil k tzv. novému žurnalismu.

✵ 31. leden 1923 – 10. listopad 2007
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„…. Sovětský svaz musí být pravděpodobně nejnudnější země v dějinách národů.“

Norman Mailer

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.“

Norman Mailer

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

“In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.”

Norman Mailer kniha The Presidential Papers

Preface
The Presidential Papers (1963)

“Mysteries are irritated by facts.”

Norman Mailer

Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.”

Norman Mailer kniha An American Dream

Detective Roberts, in Ch. 8
An American Dream (1965)

“Chicago was a town where nobody could ever forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.”

Norman Mailer kniha Miami and the Siege of Chicago

Pt. 2, p. 88
Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968)

“Hungry fighters win fights.”

Norman Mailer

Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“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 kniha The Presidential Papers

The Fourth Presidential Paper — Foreign Affairs : Letter To Castro
The Presidential Papers (1963)

“The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.”

Norman Mailer

Herbst Theater, San Francisco City Arts & Lectures Series, (5 February 2007)

“There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.”

Norman Mailer kniha The Naked and the Dead

Gen. Edward Cummings, in Pt. 1, Ch. 11
The Naked and the Dead (1948)

“This is D. J., Disc Jockey to America turning off. Vietnam, hot dam.”

Norman Mailer

D.J., in Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967) Ch. 10

“When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.”

Norman Mailer

On Tough Guys Don't Dance as quoted in The New York Times (8 June 1984)

“It might be more difficult to be a President than it ever had before. Nothing less than greatness would do.”

Norman Mailer

Superman Comes to the Supermarket http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a3858/superman-supermarket/ (November 1960) <br class="br">Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

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