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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Norman Mailer _ Harlot's Ghost

    There seems to be endless capacity for strife in your system." "Of course there is. Doesn't that fit human nature?
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  5. Norman Mailer _ Harlot's Ghost

    I heard her calling to me from caverns so deep in herself she was never aware of her own voice.
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  6. Norman Mailer _ Harlot's Ghost

    I've never been to the Playboy mansion," he wrote, "but Thyme Hill must make Hugh Hefner look like a spinster having a few lady friends in for tea." He
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  7. Norman Mailer _ Harlot's Ghost

    Happiness is experienced most directly in the intervals between terror.
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  8. Norman Mailer _ Harlot's Ghost

    I was in love with a beautiful, brilliant girl who was married to the most elegant and incisive gent I had ever met; there was no hope for me but, oh, the love was beautiful. Mr.
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  9. Norman Mailer _ Harlot's Ghost

    He had also been married to an English girl who was killed in a car accident, a fact to mention because he was the driver. His sorrow was complete; it was as if he had been dipped into a tragic rue. This loss permeated every pore and organ cell, left him, indeed, a complete man, all of one piece, one whole tincture of loss. He spoke in a gentle voice and listened to every word that everyone said, as if words were as much of a comfort as warm clothing. While he sipped his one beer and I had three,
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  10. Norman Mailer _ Harlot's Ghost

    Certain kinds of honor could not be lost without demanding that one consecrate oneself thereafter-no matter how unsuited and unprepared-to a life of revenge. I
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  11. Norman Mailer _ Harlot's Ghost

    Sometimes I think our future existence will depend on whether we can keep false information from proliferating too rapidly. If our power to verify the facts does not keep pace, then distortions of information will eventually choke us.
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  12. Norman Mailer _ Harlot's Ghost

    I cannot bear that chirpy Bobby Kennedy, always building his beaver's nest with a few more facts. He needs to look into the abyss.
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