Oswald's Tale Quotes

“It is a credo for lonely people: My heart is my church.”
― Norman Mailer, Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

“blyat.”
― Norman Mailer, Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

“Bureaucracy is the only form of human organization that can manage to pass a hot potato through a small crack.”
― Norman Mailer, Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

“When a child has seven baby-sitters, it will lose an eye.”
― Norman Mailer, Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

“People with a good opinion of themselves tend to enjoy a double life.”
― Norman Mailer, Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

“zabitiy, which means somebody beats you, beats you, beats you, until you are beaten down.”
― Norman Mailer, Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

“sleeznyak,”
― Norman Mailer, Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

“As inquiry, the Warren Commission’s work resembles a dead whale decomposing on a beach. Yet, one does not have to view the work in this fashion. For two generations of Americans, the Warren Commission’s twenty-six volumes of Hearings and Exhibits have become a species of Talmudic text begging for commentary and further elucidation. To”
― Norman Mailer, Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery