Why are we at war? Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003. p. 10, deutsch in: Heiliger Krieg - Amerikas Kreuzzug. Aus dem Englischen von Willi Winkler. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2003, zitiert in zeit.de http://www.zeit.de/2003/22/P-Mailer
Original engl.: "It is one thing to hear a mighty explosion. It is another to recognize some time after the event that one has been deafened by it."
Norman Mailer Berühmte Zitate
The Castle In The Forest", Random House 2007. Zitiert in der Rezension von themonthly.com.au http://www.themonthly.com.au/books-inga-clendinnen-lost-woods-norman-mailer-s-039the-castle-forest039-491, dradio.de http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/kritik/600339/
Original engl.: "What enables devils to survive is that we are wise enough to understand there are no answers - there are only questions."
„Seit meinem zehnten Lebensjahr bin ich besessen von Adolf Hitler.“
auf Fragen von Karin Davison. Übersetzung und Dramatisierung des Interviews: Wieland Freund. welt.de http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article711456/Norman_Mailer_Sex-Szenen_muessen_rau_sein.html 27. Jan. 2007
zitiert in pletschette.net http://www.pletschette.net/Expo2000-Planet-of-Vision.htm als »Zitat der Ausstellung "Planet of Visions" und "Das 21. Jahrhundert"« auf der EXPO 2000 in Hannover
Original engl.: "What starts out as science fiction today may wind up being finished tomorrow as a report."
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Norman Mailer: Zitate auf Englisch
"Hip, Hell, and the Navigator" in Western Review No. 23 (Winter 1959); republished in Conversations with Norman Mailer (1988) edited by J. Michael Lennon.
Quelle: Advertisements for Myself
Quelle: In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
“The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.”
Gen. Edward Cummings, in Pt. 1, Ch. 6
Quelle: The Naked and the Dead (1948)
“Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart”
Quelle: 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.”
Quelle: Advertisements for Myself
“Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon”
Quelle: Harlot's Ghost
"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)
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”
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.