Tough Guys Don't Dance Quotes

“A cop is a human creature born stupid and raised in stupidity.”
― Norman Mailer, Tough Guys Don't Dance

“Kid, I can handle anything but the middle of the night.”
― Norman Mailer, Tough Guys Don't Dance

“Mi resi conto, allora, che l'unico vero collaudo della forza – del tono muscolare, per così dire – della sanità mentale è la capacità di sostenere l'urto di un interrogativo dietro l'altro senza che vi sia neanche l'ombra di una risposta.”
― Norman Mailer, Tough Guys Don't Dance

“Despair is the emotion we feel at the death of beings within us.”
― Norman Mailer, Tough Guys Don't Dance

“In the kitchen, during the night, the dog had been ill. The treasures of his belly befouled the linoleum.”
― Norman Mailer, Tough Guys Don't Dance

“The perception of the possibility of greatness in myself has always been followed by desire to murder the nearest unworthy.”
― Norman Mailer, Tough Guys Don't Dance