"We all live under the threat of extermination"

Norman Mailer
(13 de Janeiro de 1923 - 10 de Novembro de 2007)

The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today... We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.

[In "Conversations with Norman Mailer", ed. J. Michael Lennon (1988). "Hip, Hell, and the Navigator," no. 23, Western Review (Winter 1959)]