Norman Mailer, Deaths For The Ladies
7 quotes
"I won't stay inwith married menany moresaid the wise girlthey're too agreeable,it's a little too muchlike curlingupwith the good book.You meanagood bookOh, dear,did I saythegood booksighed the witch."
"I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more."
"I tell you, say the rich,the poor are naughtbut dirty windwelling in air-shaftsover the cindersand droppings ofthe past, theirvoices thickwith greaseand ordure,sewer-greedto corrode the earwith the horrorsof the pastand the voidsof new stupidity.One could drownwaiting for the poorto makeone fine distinction.Yes, destroy ussay the richand you losethe rootsof God."
"Every time I move I squash something said Loathesome."
"Let everywritertell hisownliesThat's freedomof thepress."
"Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away"
"rip the prisonsopenput theconvictsontelevision"