Quotes: Life (16)

Life 185 "But if you stop and quit moving you die." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Life 235 "You look out for everything, he thought, and you still get hit from behind." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Life 262 Prep school ethics? " …regular-fellow ethic borrowed from more exclusive eastern prep schools: you do not lie…you do not cheat…you do not swear…you do not screw…and you go to church." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Life 273 "Get potted, get screwed, and get up in the morning, somehow." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Life 275 One view of life. "Everything is crapped up, everything is phony, everything curdles when you touch it." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Life 316 "In the final analysis there was only necessity and one’s reactions to it." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Life 319 Lessons from life. "Life’s a hard thing, and nobody gives you nothing; you do it alone; every man’s hand is against you, that’s what you also find out." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Life 342 Croft: "If you can’t do nothin’, keep your mouth shut…one of his few maxims." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Life 486 There are private and public battles fought simultaneously. "Each of them was fighting his private battle." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Life 548 Metaphor for life. "You carried it alone as long as you could, and then you weren’t strong enough to take it any longer…kept fighting everything, and everything broke you down, until in the end you were just a little goddam bolt holding on and squealing when the machine went too fast." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.