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Us Quotes by Norman Mailer
- We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
- One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being,…
- We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions…
- Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the…
- God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.
- Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any…
- Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the…
- Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always…
- Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.
- We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us…
- We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater…
- We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong