Norman Mailer Quotes

When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.

Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.

Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

Whenever someone like a plumber or a mechanic tries to explain something technical to me, I listen for about three seconds before it all just becomes white noise, like Charlie Brown's teacher.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

When all else fails, complicate matters.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning the war.

… a blind man talking to a group of deaf people

I have always been misunderstood.

Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.

If you see something you don't understand, smash it.

The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

Okay... That's still blind-making.

It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.

I'm in a Road Runner cartoon, Sinclair. And I'm the coyote.