Frases de Norman Mailer (173 citas, página 4)

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“La revolución feminista ha convertido a la mujer en ese tipo de hombre que a mí me entristecía cuando era joven, ese que tenía que trabajar de nueve a cinco de manera aburrida y nunca era dueño de su destino. Ahí es donde acabó su revolución, su asalto al poder.”

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“Hay una ley de vida, cruel y exacta, que afirma que uno debe crecer o, en caso contrario, pagar más por seguir siendo el mismo.”

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“El éxito es sólo la mitad de bonito cuando no hay nadie que nos envidie.”

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“A fin de cuentas, un héroe es alguien que quisiera discutir con los dioses, y así debilita a los demonios para combatir su visión.”

Norman Mailer libro The Presidential Papers

Fuente: [Mailer, Norman, The Presidential Papers, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963, Nueva York, Prefacio].

“Hay que ser un artista para entender a otro. Los críticos de arte no se parecen mucho a los grandes pintores.”

Norman Mailer

Fuente: Entrevista con Divina Infusino en American Way. 15 de junio de 1995.

“No creo que la vida sea absurda. Creo que todos estamos aquí con un gran proposito creo que nos estremecemos por la inmensidad del proposito por el que estamos aquí.”

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Fuente: película The Shrink. Minuto 03:47.
Fuente: El analisnta, Shrink (Película) - Norman Mailer, 28 de junio, 2015 http://selecciondefrases.blogspot.com/2009/10/el-analisnta-shrink-2009-norman-mailer.html,

“La masculinidad no es algo que te es dado, sino algo que consigues. Y lo consigues ganando con honor pequeñas batallas. Puesto que queda muy poco honor en la vida norteamericana, hay incorporada una innegable tendencia a destruir la masculinidad en los hombres norteamericanos.”

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Idioma original: «Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men».
Fuente: [Mailer, Norman, Cannibals and Christians, Dial, 1966, Nueva York].

“Encuentro que, ahora que las mujeres han alcanzado algo de poder y reconocimiento, son muy parecidas a los varones en cada estupidez y vicio y error por los que hemos pasado a lo largo de la historia. Ellas son de mente estrecha, buscan el poder, incapaces de reconocer el placer de una buena discusión. El movimiento feminista está lleno de tiranas, tal como están llenos de hombres tiranos los movimientos políticos. Lo que he llegado a descubrir son los lados negativos, que las mujeres no son mejores que los varones. Solía pensar — esto es sexismo de algún modo, lo reconozco — que las mujeres eran mejor que los varones. Ahora me doy cuenta de que no, que no son mejores para nada.”

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Idioma original: «I find now that women have achieved some power and recognition they are quite the equal of men in every stupidity and vice and misjudgment that we've exercised through history. They're narrow-minded, power seeking, incapable of recognizing the joys of a good discussion. The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled. What I've come to discover are the negative sides, that women are no better than men. I used to think — this is sexism in a way, I'll grant it — that women were better than men. Now I realize no, they're not any better».
Fuente: Entrevista titulada "His Punch Is Better Than Ever", por Bonnie Angelo en revista TIME.
Fuente: His Punch Is Better Than Ever, 28 de junio, 2015, Angelo, Bonnie, 30 de septiembre de 1991, Revista TIME, inglés http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,973925,00.html,

Norman Mailer: Frases en inglés

“Croft had an instinctive knowledge of land, sensed the stresses and torsions that had first erupted it, the abrasions of wind and water. The platoon had long ceased to question any direction he took; they knew he would be right as infallibly as sun after darkness or fatigue after a long march.”

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Norman Mailer libro The Naked and the Dead

Pt. 3, Ch. 10
The Naked and the Dead (1948)

“I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity — it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.”

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Norman Mailer libro An American Dream

Stephen Rojack, in Ch. 5
An American Dream (1965)

“Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.”

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News summaries (31 December 1969)

“Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.”

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Norman Mailer libro An American Dream

Stephen Rojack, in Ch. 7
An American Dream (1965)

“Politics quarantines one from history; most of the people who nourish themselves in the political life are in the game not to make history but to be diverted from the history which is being made.”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.”

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On Joe DiMaggio's marriage to Marilyn Monroe, in Marilyn (1973)

“Los Angeles is the home of self-expression, but the artists are middle-class and middling-minded; no passions will calcify here for years in the gloom to be revealed a decade later as the tessellations of hard and fertile work. … In this land of the pretty-pretty, the virility is in the barbarisms, the vulgarities, it is in the huge billboards, the screamers of the neon lighting, the shouting farm-utensil colors of the gas stations and monster drugstores, it is in the swing of the sports cars, hot rods, convertibles.”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.”

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Marilyn (1973), Ch. 1

“He could jazz up the map-reading class by having a full-size color photograph of Betty Grable in a bathing suit, with a co-ordinate grid system laid over it. The instructor could point to different parts of her and say, "Give me the co-ordinates."… The Major could see every unit in the Army using his idea…. Hot dog!”

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Norman Mailer libro The Naked and the Dead

On Maj. Dalleson, in Pt. 4, Ch. 1
The Naked and the Dead (1948)

“There was that law of life so cruel and so just which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.”

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Norman Mailer libro Barbary Shore

Fuente: Barbary Shore (1951), Ch. 26

“There was Johnson (Lyndon) who had compromised too many contradictions and now the contradictions were in his face: when he smiled the corners of his mouth squeezed gloom; when he was pious, his eyes twinkled irony; when he spoke in a righteous tone, he looked corrupt; when he jested, the ham in his jowls looked to quiver. He was not convincing. He was a Southern politician, a Texas Democrat, a liberal Eisenhower; he would do no harm, he would do no good, he would react to the machine, good fellow, nice friend -- the Russians would understand him better than his own. … Johnson gave you all of himself, he was a political animal, he breathed like an animal, sweated like one, you knew his mind was entirely absorbed with the compendium of political fact and maneuver.”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“There could be no politics which gave warmth to one's body until the country had recovered its imagination, its pioneer lust for the unexpected and incalculable.”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“And all the bright young people of his youth had butted their heads, smashed against things until they got weaker and the things still stood.”

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Norman Mailer libro The Naked and the Dead

Lieutenant Robert Hearn, Pt. 2, Ch. 12
The Naked and the Dead (1948)

“Pompous words and long pauses which lay like a leaden pain over fever, the fever that one is in, over, or is it that one is just behind history?”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“You carried it alone as long as you could, and then you weren't strong enough to take it any longer. You kept fighting everything, and everything broke you down, until in the end you were just a little goddam bolt holding on and squealing when the machine went too fast.”

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Norman Mailer libro The Naked and the Dead

Pt. 3, Ch. 14
The Naked and the Dead (1948)

“I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.”

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Norman Mailer libro The Presidential Papers

The Sixth Presidential Paper — A Kennedy Miscellany : An Impolite Interview
The Presidential Papers (1963)

“Mystery is an emotion which is repugnant to a political animal.”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak. Hula, hula, said the witches.”

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Norman Mailer libro An American Dream

Stephen Rojack, in Ch. 4
An American Dream (1965)

“Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.”

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Norman Mailer libro An American Dream

Stephen Rojack, in Ch. 6
An American Dream (1965)

“There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.”

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Norman Mailer

News summaries (31 December 1969)

“Why else lead a life of bad banquet dinners, cigar smoke, camp chairs, foul breath, and excruciatingly dull jargon if not to avoid the echoes of what is not known.”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.”

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Norman Mailer libro Barbary Shore

Fuente: Barbary Shore (1951), Ch. 18

“God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.”

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Norman Mailer libro Advertisements for Myself

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

“James Farley. Huge. Cold as a bishop. The hell he would consign you to was cold as ice.”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“I knew that Jack needed a lot of help, and what he really needed was somebody who could spend a prodigious amount of time with him, every night, see him, live with him, live with him the way someone in A. A. lives with a drunk. … I wasn't doing that. So when the crime occurred — because I'd just been hoping things would work out all right — when the crime occurred, I knew that I had a responsibility on that one.”

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On his role in the parole of Jack Abbott, during which Abbot killed a man.
Interview for French TV (1998)

“There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.”

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Review of the book My Hope for America
Cannibals and Christians (1966)

“New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic, San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington wink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one-trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle, St Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities.”

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Norman Mailer libro Miami and the Siege of Chicago

Pt. 2, p. 83
Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968)

“Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.”

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Norman Mailer libro An American Dream

Stephen Rojack, in Ch. 1
An American Dream (1965)

“Somerset Maugham … wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be." … I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought … or else the universe is just an elaborate clock.”

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Norman Mailer libro Barbary Shore

Fuente: Barbary Shore (1951), Ch. 10

“He has wasted the day, he tells himself, he has wasted the day as he has wasted so many days of his life … while that huge work with which he has cheated himself, that enormous novel which would lift him at a bound from the impasse in which he stifles, whose dozens of characters would develop a vision of life in bountiful complexity, lies foundering, rotting on a beach of purposeless effort. Notes here, pages there, it sprawls through a formless wreck of incidental ideas and half-episodes; utterly without shape. He is not even a hero for it.”

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Fuente: The Man Who Studied Yoga (1956), Ch. 5

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