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  1. Norman Mailer _ The Armies of the Night:

    For guilt was the existential edge of sex. Without guilt, sex was meaningless.
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  2. Norman Mailer _ Harlot's Ghost

    The aim of these gatherings is to acquaint you with the factology of facts. One has to know whether one is dealing with the essential or the circumferential fact. Historical data, after all, tend to be not particularly factual and subject to revision by later researchers. You must look to start, therefore, with the fact that cannot be smashed into sub-particles of fact.
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  3. Norman Mailer _ Harlot's Ghost

    You can say the universe is a splendidly worked-up system of disinformation calculated to make us believe in evolution and so divert us away from God. Yes, that is exactly what I would do if I were the Lord and could not trust
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  4. Norman Mailer _ Of a Fire on the Moon

    Was the conquest of space then a potential chariot of Satan, the unique and grand avenue for the new totalitarian?
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  5. Norman Mailer _ The Armies of the Night:

    There was a way, of course, to deal with the papers. If the ears of the reporters were geared to capture accurately the mediocre remarks of mediocre men, then one had to look for simple salient statements, so poetically bare, but so irreducible, that they would stick in the reporter's mind like a thorn."
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  6. Norman Mailer _ The Naked and the Dead

    Margaret is kindled by it, exalted for a time, sees it as passion, glows and becomes rounded, but only for a time. After a year it is completely naked, apparent to her, that he is alone, that he fights out battles with himself upon her body, and something withers in her.
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  7. Norman Mailer _ The Executioner's Song

    Gary Mark Gilmore: Go down on me, partner... I need itNicole Baker: Don't call me partner.Gary Mark Gilmore: No, darlin'... I love it... I love itNicole Baker: Yeah, you and seven other motherfuckers.
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  8. Norman Mailer _ Harlot's Ghost

    For it's exactly when we come closest to another, that we are turned away with a lie, and blunder forward to comprehend ourselves on the misperceptions of the past.
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  9. Norman Mailer _ The Naked and the Dead

    lofting itself massively into the low-hanging clouds of the sky. In the early drab twilight it looked like an immense old gray elephant erecting himself somberly on his front legs, his haunches lost in the green bedding of his lair. The mountain seemed wise and powerful, and terrifying in its size. Gallagher stared at it in absorption, caught by a sense of beauty he could not express. The idea, the vision he always held of something finer and neater and more beautiful than the moil in which he lived trembled now, pitched almost to a climax of words. There
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  10. Norman Mailer _ The Executioner's Song

    I'm not saying its right to break the law. I'm not talkin about that-but these prisons as they exist are wrong.
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  11. Norman Mailer _ The Castle in the Forest

    concept among apicultural cognoscenti;
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  12. Norman Mailer _ The Fight

    For if we are our own force, we are also a servant of the forces of the dead. So we have to be bold enough to live with all the magical forces at loose between the living and the dead. That is never free of dread. It takes bravery to live with beauty or wealth if we think of them as an existence connected to the messages, the curses, and the loyalties of the dead. In
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