You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'


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He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creati...
NORMAN MAILER
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
NORMAN MAILER
I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father's tales about the blitz of Man...
NORMAN DAVIES
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
NORMAN COUSINS
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always livi...
NORMAN MAILER
Courage brother, do not stumble,
though thy path be dark as night:
There is a star to gui...
NORMAN MACLEOD
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's...
NORMAN MACLEAN
The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smal...
NORMAN MAILER
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
NORMAN COUSINS
I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. ...
GREG NORMAN
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
NORMAN MAILER
The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they wil...
NORMAN THOMAS
The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.
NORMAN SHERRY
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredi...
NORMAN MAILER
In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that....
NORMAN MAILER
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democrac...
NORMAN MAILER
I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
NORMAN MAILER
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its eff...
NORMAN COUSINS
Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
NORMAN COUSINS
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, ...
NORMAN TEBBIT
Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterran...
NORMAN MAILER
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it ap...
NORMAN PODHORETZ
we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
NORMAN MACEWAN
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important ...
GREG NORMAN
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and h...
NORMAN MAILER
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.
NORMAN MAILER
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only b...
NORMAN MAILER
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from th...
NORMAN MAILER
The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dag...
NORMAN COUSINS
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form ...
NORMAN COUSINS
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
NORMAN MACEWAN
That the public can grow accustomed to any face is proved by the increasing prevalence of Keith's ru...
PHILIP NORMAN
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining ...
NORMAN MAILER