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| 39c937f | Hearn's death was happily smudged, or at least on the surface, but ever since the second ambush he had been feeling the apprehension of a man in a dream who knows he is guilty, is waiting for his punishment, and cannot remember his crime. | Norman Mailer | ||
| 64ed41d | He does see Himself as the Divine Artist. Of course, He is also a blunderer--so many of His creations are botched. A good many are disasters which He then proceeds to plow back into the food chain. That is His only means of keeping His multitudinous, mediocre, and often meaningless spawnings from choking the existence of the rest. Yet, I will admit, He is dogged. He is still looking to improve His previous creations. | Norman Mailer | ||
| 177b8af | It is easy to comprehend people who are weaker than ourselves, but it is not as simple to be ready for the true feelings of those more powerful. | Norman Mailer | ||
| 7c3cac6 | 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 | Norman Mailer | ||
| ef02459 | On choosing to write the book in third person, and using his name Norman as the nom de plume) NOW, OUR MAN of wisdom had a vice. He wrote about himself. Not only would he describe the events he saw, but his own small effect on events. This irritated critics. They spoke of ego trips and the unattractive dimensions of his narcissism. Such criticism did not hurt too much. He had already had a love affair with himself, and it used up a good dea.. | third-person narcissism | Norman Mailer | |
| 89a5097 | How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse. | hatred | Norman Mailer | |
| 58602d6 | Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken. | cowardice | Norman Mailer | |
| f7c2cf2 | It was probably a damn sight easier than getting rid of a woman who had found something in him that he didn't have or he didn't care to give. | Norman Mailer | ||
| 59df8c7 | Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand), the first single from Eat Me, Drink Me, features a video filmed by Titanic director James Cameron. In it, Manson croons to Wood, who - with bobbed hair, gloves and a demure frock - blankly masturbates in an audience of writhing lesbians, Manson's image reflected in her heart-shaped glasses. I wanted to like the song, but found Manson's threadbare voice and overdubbed music annoying, and.. | evan-rachel-wood heart-shaped-glasses james-cameron marilyn-manson music-videos lolita | Antonella Gambotto-Burke | |
| 1a9a2db | it all seems more reasonable and possible until you put it figuratively, until the metaphorical end, which is always the muzzle if you come down to it, blasts you in the face. | Norman Mailer | ||
| 5a92c3f | Don't bug me or I'll gas you said the creep | Norman Mailer | ||
| b1f5484 | Love was here today and left us dry did we deserve Him? | Norman Mailer | ||
| 56a5d4c | You let everything stand until it's knocked over and then you go over and write your own ruins | Norman Mailer | ||
| 0a6efd7 | We find, therefore, Lowell and Mailer ostensibly locked in converse. In fact, out of the thousand separate enclaves of their very separate personalities, they sensed quickly that they now shared one enclave to the hilt: their secret detestation of liberal academic parties to accompany worthy causes. Yes, their snobbery was on this mountainous face close to identical--each had a delight in exactly the other kind of party, a posh evil social .. | Norman Mailer | ||
| 33f2acf | Sequestered in the depths of the average pacifist--as one will invariably discover--resides a killer. That is why the person has become a pacifist in the first place. | Norman Mailer | ||
| d35ff42 | What enables devils to survive is that we are wise enough to understand that there are no answers--there are only questions. | Norman Mailer | ||
| e80ce36 | but when the call came from Shirley Pedler to help in organizing the Utah Coalition Against the Death Penalty, she knew she would go out in the world again with her freaky blond hair, blond to everyone's disbelief--at the age of fifty-four, go out in her denims and chin-length-hanging-down-straight vanilla hair to that Salt Lake world where nobody would ever make the mistake of thinking she was a native Utah lady inasmuch as Utah was the Be.. | Norman Mailer | ||
| e2e7323 | If men could move out of infancy at half a mile an hour and get up to eighteen thousand miles an hour in one lifetime, well, who was to assume that the walls of the universe were safe from future men? | Norman Mailer | ||
| 9b0bfbd | Then comes the left jab again. A converted southpaw? It has something of the shift of locus which comes from making love to a brunette when she is wearing a blond wig. | Norman Mailer | ||
| af549e2 | Piety can also serve as a wall to keep the pious from recognizing how profoundly angry they are at God--this God who has failed to treat them by what they see as their proper right. | Norman Mailer | ||
| 86b6f91 | Repetition kills the soul. | Norman Mailer | ||
| e8c98d7 | I suspect Kierkegaard had just that in mind when he proposed that people had to be wary of feeling too saintly, since they could not be certain of the source of such feelings. | Norman Mailer | ||
| b061710 | 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 war.. | Norman Mailer | ||
| 4a46372 | Norman Mailer said there were four stages in a marriage: first the affair then the marriage, then children and then finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. | Michael Robotham | ||
| dbed623 | More sensitive than others in the beginning, we have to develop the will, the stamina, the determination, and the insensitivity to take critical abuse. A good writer, therefore, does well to see himself as a strong, weak person, full of brave timidity, sensitive and insensitive. | Norman Mailer | ||
| 87be613 | He was full of love--for himself, first, and his prowess--such a fine power at his age. Then, he felt a degree of love for her-- | Norman Mailer | ||
| 2db5e3d | Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools. | speak-up quiet fools | Alan Paton | |
| 3b37b97 | Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come yet, something is here already. | alan-paton cry-the-beloved-country | Alan Paton | |
| c4901c2 | They must go on, said Msimangu gravely. You cannot stop the world from going on. My friend, I am a Christian. It is not in my heart to hate a white man. It was a white man who brought my father out of darkness. But you will pardon me if I talk frankly to you. The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again. The white man has broken the tribe. And it is my belief -- and again I ask your pardon -- that.. | Alan Paton | ||
| 799f39d | S]orrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich ... Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving. | Alan Paton | ||
| 6fbf91b | The Judge does not make the Law. It is the People that make the Law. Therefore if a Law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the Law, that is justice, even if it is not just. It is the duty of a Judge to do justice, but it is only the People who can be just. | Alan Paton | ||
| 850d9eb | What are you looking at?" "The woman I love." With all his heart and soul. Reese looked over her shoulder. "Where? I don't see any one." Then she laughed, hitting the glass table with the palm of her hand." | Erin McCarthy | ||
| a05009b | I'm sure once he recovers from the muscle tone and tattoos he'll be fine.' Good thing he didn't know about the penis piercing. That would give him a heart attack. Or the fact that I had seen the penis piercing. | Erin McCarthy | ||
| adfcf95 | Sounds like a plan. I owe Tammy a big thank-you." Ty sighed. "I think I'm too old for this bachelor party crap." "We'll be planning yours soon enough." That was so not appealing, Ty was almost scared. "Let's just go fishing and call it good." "Done." | marriage friendships | Erin McCarthy | |
| 623dfb1 | Not perfect, not tidy. Just Happy. | Erin McCarthy | ||
| aefdf07 | Wow. Getting sassy, aren't you?" "I am, aren't I?" I asked in amazement. "I didn't know I knew how to do that." | Erin McCarthy | ||
| 2d822ae | Suzanne glanced over at her, eyebrow raised. "Is there an anaconda?" she asked, like it had suddenly occurred to her she could be totally wrong. Tamara should only be so lucky. "No, there's no anaconda, I can promise you that." Not even a garden snake." -- | funny flat-out-sexy | Erin McCarthy | |
| 0323a79 | Just what she needed. She was single and pregnant and her nipples had suddenly become supersensitive $luts looking for action. | Erin McCarthy | ||
| 550fce6 | I'd never seen a penis in person and I was curious | Erin McCarthy | ||
| 9763af9 | They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake. | simile literature | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 6d8cb48 | You wear out, Ed Tom. All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it. Your grandad never asked me to sign on as deputy with him. I done that my own self. Hell, I didn't have nothing else to do. Paid about the same as cowboyin. Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| ada9302 | All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it. Yessir. But there aint but one reason. Yessir. You know what it is? No sir. It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be. | lateness tardiness | Cormac McCarthy | |
| bd8f064 | They pulled the wet saddles off the horses and hobbled them and walked off in separate directions through the chaparral to stand spraddle legged clutching their knees and vomiting. The browsing horses jerked their heads up. It was no sound they'd ever heard before. In the grey twilight those retchings seemed to echo like the calls of some rude provisional species loosed upon that waste. A thing smirking deep in the eyes of grace itself like.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| a8033f9 | Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar. | olvido recuerdo | Cormac McCarthy |