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
"Petty Notes on Some Sex in America" first published in Playboy magazine (1961 - 1962)
Cannibals and Christians (1966)
Norman Mailer kniha Advertisements for Myself
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
“I hate everything which is not in myself.”
Norman Mailer kniha The Naked and the Dead
Sgt. Sam Croft, in Pt. 1, Ch. 5
The Naked and the Dead (1948)
Norman Mailer kniha Barbary Shore
Zdroj: Barbary Shore (1951), Ch. 14
"Hip, Hell, and the Navigator" in Western Review No. 23 (Winter 1959); republished in Conversations with Norman Mailer (1988) edited by J. Michael Lennon.
“The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter
“Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.”
Norman Mailer kniha Advertisements for Myself
"The White Negro", first published in Dissent (Summer 1957)
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
“The need of the city is to accelerate growth; the pride of the small town is to retard it.”
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
Norman Mailer kniha Barbary Shore
Michael Lovett, in Ch. 14
Barbary Shore (1951)
“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”
Norman Mailer kniha Barbary Shore
McLeod, in Ch. 29
Barbary Shore (1951)
Timothy Madden, in Tough Guys Don't Dance (1984), Ch. 1
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
Norman Mailer kniha An American Dream
Stephen Rojack, in Ch. 1
An American Dream (1965)
As quoted in The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden (1968) by David W. Noble, p. 204
“One can indeed be restored, by an exceptional demonstration of love.”
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
Norman Mailer kniha Advertisements for Myself
"The Homosexual Villain"; this has also been widely misquoted as: "There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality."
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
Zdroj: The Man Who Studied Yoga (1956), Ch. 5
Norman Mailer kniha The Naked and the Dead
Gen. Edward Cummings, in Pt. 1, Ch. 6
The Naked and the Dead (1948)
Harry Hubbard, in Harlot's Ghost : A Novel (1991)
Norman Mailer kniha Miami and the Siege of Chicago
Pt. 2, p. 87
Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968)
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
“In tranquility one recollects them with affection, their instinct is good, crazy family good.”
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
"A Speech at Berkeley on Vietnam Day"
Cannibals and Christians (1966)
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
Norman Mailer kniha Barbary Shore
Michael Lovett, in Ch. 33
Barbary Shore (1951)
As quoted in The Writer's Quotation Book : A Literary Companion (1980) by James Charlton, p. 43
