Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Norman Mailer Quotes Click here for Norman Mailer books "Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit." "A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.” "Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.” "Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.” "America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.” "There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.” "The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.” "In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.” "In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.” 
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