"Alimony is the curse of the writing class." — Norman Mailer
"Alimony is the curse of the writing class."
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Norman Mailer
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160 Quotes by Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer has 160 quotes on this site.
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We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing…
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In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the…
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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
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Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative…
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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new…
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A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a…
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At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do…
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I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary…
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Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
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More Alimony Quotes
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one of 21 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
— John Barrymore
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Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God…
— Lewis Black
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My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous…
— John Cleese
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Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it…
— Robin Williams
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Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it.
— Peggy Hopkins Joyce
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I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much
— Don Adams
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If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the…
— Groucho Marx
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Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
— Oliver Herford
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I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very…
— Linda Evans
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Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.
— Dick Schaap
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The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love -…
— Fannie Hurst
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