# Advertisements for Myself

- Author: [Norman Mailer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer.md)
- Quotes: 11
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself

## Quotes

> The hipster comes our of a muted rebellion of the proletariat, he is, so to say, the lazy proletariat. The beatnik - often Jewish - comes from the middle class, and twenty-five years ago would have join the YCL [Young Communist League]. Today, he chooses not to work as a sentence against the conformity of his parents. Therefore he can feel moral value in his good-bye to society. The hipster is more easygoing about the drag and value of a moneyless life of leisure.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself/the-hipster-comes.md)

> 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.

p. 520 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself/when-the-wind.md)

> The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself/the-white-protestants.md)

> To be an existentialist, one must be able to feel oneself — one must know one’s desires, one’s rages,one’s anguish, one must be aware of the character of one’s frustration and know what would satisfy it.The over-civilized man can be an existentialist only if it is chic, and deserts it quickly for the next chic.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself/to-be-an-existentialist.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself/america-is-a-hurricane.md)

> "Advertisement for 'Games and Ends'", Pt. 5

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself/advertisement-for-games.md)

> I had my good looks, my blond hair, my height, build, and bullfighting school, I suppose I became one of the Village equivalents of an Eagle Scout badge for the girls. I was one of the credits needed for a diploma in the sexual humanities.

p. 485 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself/i-had-my-good.md)

> There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself/there-is-probably.md)

> God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

p. 530 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself/god-like-us-suffers.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself/each-day-a-few.md)

> Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself/hip-is-the.md)