Quotes About Mailer

Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.

I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.

Chapter I The Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was born was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more. It was set with handsome parks, notable buildings, and crowded with historic memories. Many of the things that we and he knew later were not then in existence—the telegraph, telephone, express company, ocean steamer, city delivery of mails.

Hemingway and Norman Mailer might have disagreed, but there is no heavyweight champion of literature.

The next morning, Mailer crisscrossed Commercial Street looking for the young witches who had plagued his dreams, but they were nowhere to be found. He met Evelyn Lawson for coffee at Adams Pharmacy, where she updated him on her book about the Costa case. "I'm

It aroused my paranoia (which is always there in ready supply, since it is preferable to poor powers of anticipation).

By God, was Gary like Harry Truman, mediocrity enlarged by history?