Showing posts with label Norman Mailer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norman Mailer. Show all posts

Monday, October 26, 2009

Secret Prostitution of the Soul

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The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul. - Norman Mailer

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, medication, depression, neurosis, and suicide. With failure comes failure. – Joseph Heller

Success and failure are equally disastrous. – Tennessee Williams

I don’t think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays, when there’s a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you’re always making a choice. – Lina Wertmuller

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves. – J.B. Priesley

Television: chewing gum for the eyes. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. – Anonymous

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. – Ernie Kovacs



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