'"I decided the only explanation is that God and the Devil are very attentive to people at the summit. I don't know if they stir much in the average man's daily stew, no great sport for spooks, I would suppose, in a ranch house, but do you expect God or the Devil left Lenin and Hitler and Churchill alone? No. They bidQuotes:
for favors and exact revenge. That's why men with power sometimes act so silly."' (from An American Dream, 1965)
"I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop."
"There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will."
Further reading
Norman Mailer, by Michael K. Glenday. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.Radical Fictions and the Novels of Norman Mailer, by Nigel Leigh. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.Critical Essays on Norman Mailer, edited by J.Michael Lennon: Boston, G.K.Hall and Co., 1986.Norman Mailer, by Richard Poirier, New York: Viking,1972. One of the best studies of Mailer's writing, tracking his career through the early Eighties.Norman Mailer, by Richard Jackson Foster, University of Minnesota Press, 1968.The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer, by Barry H. Leeds, New York University Press,1969.Norman Mailer, by Robert Merrill, Twayne, 1978.Mailer: His Life and Times, edited by Peter Manso, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. Highly readable "oral" biography of Mailer created by cross-cutting interviews with friends, enemies, acquaintances, relatives, wives of Mailer and Mailer himself.Conversations with Norman Mailer, edited by J. Michael Lennon. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1988.The Portable Beat Reader, edited by Ann Charters, Penguin Books. New York. 1992. ISBN 0-670-83885-3 (hc); ISBN 0-14-015102-8 (pbk).
Websites:
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http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nmailer.htm
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