# Quote — Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself

> 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.

- Author: [Norman Mailer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer.md)
- Book: [Advertisements for Myself](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norman_Mailer#Advertisements_for_Myself_(1959)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself/each-day-a-few

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> 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.

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