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Norman Kingsley Mailer foi um escritor e jornalista estadunidense, premiado duas vezes com o Prêmio Pulitzer.

Mailer é considerado um dos pais da não-ficção criativa, também chamado de Novo Jornalismo, ao lado de escritores como Tom Wolfe e Truman Capote, vértice da literatura norte-americana.

Estudou engenharia aeronáutica na Universidade de Harvard, onde despertou interesse pela leitura e escrita através de artigos do jornal universitário.

Com fama e reconhecimento internacionais desde 1948, quando seu livro Os Nus e os Mortos , baseado em experiências vividas na Segunda Guerra Mundial, foi um best seller bastante elogiado pela crítica, Mailer foi duas vezes premiado com o Pulitzer: em 1968 com Os Exércitos da Noite e em 1979 com A Canção do Carrasco sobre o condenado à morte Gary Gilmore.

Importante expoente da contracultura nos Estados Unidos dos anos 60, Mailer foi um dos fundadores do influente jornal alternativo The Village Voice e ativista contra a Guerra do Vietnam, o que lhe custou uma prisão. A biografia sobre Marilyn Monroe publicada em 1973 foi um de seus grandes sucessos de vendas e provocou enorme polêmica, com as afirmativas de que a morte da atriz teria sido causada pelo FBI e pela CIA, que condenavam seu suposto romance com o senador Robert Kennedy.

Morreu em 10 de novembro de 2007 no Hospital Monte Sinai, em Nova Iorque, aos 84 anos, vítima de problemas pulmonares. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Janeiro 1923 – 10. Novembro 2007
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Norman Mailer Frases famosas

“Morrer não deve ser tão difícil. Até hoje, todos foram bem-sucedidos.”

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Norman Mailer citado em "As melhores frases de ironia e irreverência‎" - Página 81, GARAMOND, Editora Garamond, ISBN 8576170868, 9788576170860- 120 páginas

“Não creio que a vida é um absurdo. Penso que estamos todos aqui para um enorme propósito. Penso que temos medo de a imensidade da finalidade para que estamos aqui.”

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I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
Norman Mailer em entrevista com Divina Infusino em American Way (15 de junho de 1995)

“O papel natural do homem do século XX é ansiedade.”

Norman Mailer

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
Norman Mailer in The Naked and the Dead (1948)

“Bill Clinton age como um caipira deslumbrado com a cidade grande. Ele fica perseguindo umas mulherzinhas que em Washington os políticos com um mínimo de compostura ignoram.”

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Fonte: Revista Veja http://veja.abril.com.br/231298/p_012.html de 23/12/98

Norman Mailer: Frases em inglês

“The excessive hysteria of the Red wave was no preparation to face an enemy, but rather a terror of the national self.”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.”

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Norman Mailer livro Advertisements for Myself

"First Advertisement for Myself"
Advertisements for Myself (1959)

“I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.”

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Harry Hubbard, in Harlot's Ghost : A Novel (1991)

“I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life. … Every time I get totally discouraged with this country, I remind myself, "No, the fact is that finally we can really say what we think, and some extraordinary things have come out of that."”

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Interview for French TV (1998)

“Then vote for him the boss will if he must; he cannot be caught on the wrong side, but he does not feel the pleasure of a personal choice. Which is the center of the panic.”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.”

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"The Siege of Mailer : Hero to Historian" in The Village Voice (21 January 1971); republished in Conversations with Norman Mailer (1988), edited by J. Michael Lennon

“Hitler … was a hero, the hero-as-monster, embodying what had become the monstrous fantasy of a people, but the horror upon which the radical mind and liberal temperament foundered was that he gave outlet to the energies of the Germans and so presented the twentieth century with an index of how horrible had become the secret heart of its desire.”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.”

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Norman Mailer livro Advertisements for Myself

"Advertisement for 'Games and Ends'", Pt. 5
Advertisements for Myself (1959)

“The only true journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.”

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Norman Mailer livro An American Dream

Ch. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=BxRbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+only+true+journey+of+knowledge+is+from+the+depth+of+one+being+to+the+heart+of+another%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage
An American Dream (1965)

“Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.”

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Interview for French TV (1998)

“When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.”

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Norman Mailer livro Advertisements for Myself

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

“All too often men with physical courage are disappointing in their moral imagination.”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“Everyone from the meanest starving cripple to an ambitious young man could expand to the optimism of an improving future because the man offered an unspoken promise of a future which would be rich.”

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Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it. I get angry at it. I feel close to it. I'm charmed by it. I'm repelled by it. And it's a marriage that's gone on for let's say at least 50 years of my writing life, and in the course of that, what's happened? It's gotten worse. It's not what it used to be.”

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Interview for French TV (1998)

“There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.”

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As quoted in The International Herald Tribune (24 January 1992)