"One will feel the same subtle nausea coming……" — Norman Mailer
"One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago."
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160 Quotes by Norman Mailer
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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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The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin…
— Wayne Thomas Batson
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and…
— Edward Abbey
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I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs.
— Julius Evola
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Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the…
— Russell Brand
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All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He could hear trhe voices, the whispers, the sighs, of these souls who were unable to let go of their…
— Clare Vanderpool
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards…
— Washington Irving
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Ah, those were the days…The Dark-Hunters hunted us, we slaughtered them. We made our homes in underground catacombs and crypts…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I want a room decorated with bones!" Dan said. "Where'd they come from?" "Cemeteries," Amy said. "Back in the 1700s,…
— Rick Riordan
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The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for…
— Suzanne Collins
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