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„Es ist eine Sache, wenn man eine gewaltige Explosion hört. Aber es ist etwas ganz anderes, wenn man kurze Zeit später feststellt, dass man davon taub geworden ist.“

Norman Mailer

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."

„Was uns Teufeln das Überleben sichert, ist, wir sind weise genug um zu verstehen, dass es keine Antworten, nur Fragen gibt.“

Norman Mailer

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.“

Norman Mailer

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

„Was man heute als Science Fiction beginnt, wird man morgen vielleicht als Reportage zu Ende schreiben müssen.“

Norman Mailer

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." Zugeschrieben

Norman Mailer: Zitate auf Englisch

“The excessive hysteria of the Red wave was no preparation to face an enemy, but rather a terror of the national self.”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“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.”

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Norman Mailer buch Advertisements for Myself

"First Advertisement for Myself"
Advertisements for Myself (1959)

“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.”

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Harry Hubbard, in Harlot's Ghost : A Novel (1991)

“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."”

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Interview for French TV (1998)

“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.”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“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.”

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"The Siege of Mailer : Hero to Historian" in The Village Voice (21 January 1971); republished in Conversations with Norman Mailer (1988), edited by J. Michael Lennon

“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.”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“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.”

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Norman Mailer buch Advertisements for Myself

"Advertisement for 'Games and Ends'", Pt. 5
Advertisements for Myself (1959)

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

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Norman Mailer buch An American Dream

Ch. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=BxRbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+only+true+journey+of+knowledge+is+from+the+depth+of+one+being+to+the+heart+of+another%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage An American Dream (1965)

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

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Interview for French TV (1998)

“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.”

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Norman Mailer buch Advertisements for Myself

"Advertisement for Myself on the Way Out"
Advertisements for Myself (1959)

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

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)