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Norman Mailer Quotes
«America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.»
Author: Norman Mailer
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Eye of, fortunate, hurricane, hurricanes, incredibly, Protestants, serene, smug, The Center, The Hurricane
«In my day the library was a wonderful place... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.»
«Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.»
Author: Norman Mailer
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affliction, amnesia, flair, Irish, sauce, sauces, short-term, term
«There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.»
Author: Norman Mailer
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debase, debased, debases, debasing, expanding, odyssey, rationalize, rationalized, Utopia, void, void of
«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.»
Author: Norman Mailer
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dried-up, dried, extermination, exterminations, petty, romantic, sickness, smaller, The Romantic, The Sickness, the threat of, threat
«Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.»
Author: Norman Mailer
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Italian, Italian Renaissance, millionth, one-millionth, palace, patterned, Pentagon, Renaissance, salesmen, The Pentagon, the Renaissance, traveling salesman
«Alimony is the curse of the writing class.»
Author: Norman Mailer
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alimony
«The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.»
Author: Norman Mailer