Norman Mailer Quotes


No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.


Citations

Mailer, Norman. The Fight. Little, Brown and Company, 1975.

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Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer
  • Born: January 31, 1923
  • Died: November 10, 2007
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Columnist, Poet, Playwright

Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, film-maker and actor. In a career spanning over six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II—more than any other post-war American writer.