How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

From Brooklyn beginnings to literary pantheon, Norman Mailer's unorthodox trajectory spans marriages, offspring, accolad | dG1fZVVFSHF1U0I1a00

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00:04Police report that writer Norman Mailer was arrested this morning after a stabbing occurred at a party last night

00:10Earlier this evening Norman Mailer was committed to the violent ward of a psychiatric hospital

00:19Human nature is open-ended are we good or are we bad you think you might go to hell

00:30What makes a good writer is that they have opposites in themselves and those opposites were certainly in me ladies and gentlemen Norman

00:36Mr. Norman Norman Mailer is among the most celebrated authors of the century and undoubtedly the most controversial

00:43No other writer compares to the range and rigor of his writing 30 books over six decades a

00:48National Book Award to Pulitzer Prizes six wives nine children. Mailer was known as literature's bad boy

00:56His confrontational personality defined him as much as his novel he became the literary rock-and-roll star the outlaw

01:04Gunslinging right he's fought with the Pentagon making a revolution in the consciousness of our time

01:10feminists in sexuality

01:13Boxes go in and out of the ring. He is a master

01:16America's greatest writer if any time

01:19Needed a Norman Mailer this time

01:22Needs a Norman Mailer

01:23there's a certain passion that is dying in American life a pervasive distaste for bitter argument for

01:29Controversy people are becoming less and less interested in looking at ugly problems

01:33Debating questions that are not quickly answered a sense of light diminishes in all of us

01:37Which I think is the modern disease you see that we're all becoming duller more conventional more unimaginative

01:43Technology drives us further and further away from our instincts. We're flattening out people's spirits

01:48Surrounded by faces

01:50Everyone is always incredibly alone when we feel very little anger at anything. We just feel a dull depression. It's very hard to love

01:56It's that nice mixture of love and anger is what we need to come alive