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I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.


Norman Parkinson

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NORMAN TEBBIT Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterran...
NORMAN MAILER Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it ap...
NORMAN PODHORETZ we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
NORMAN MACEWAN You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important ...
GREG NORMAN One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and h...
NORMAN MAILER He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.
NORMAN MAILER A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only b...
NORMAN MAILER Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from th...
NORMAN MAILER The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dag...
NORMAN COUSINS It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form ...
NORMAN COUSINS Many a man never fails because he never tries.
NORMAN MACEWAN That the public can grow accustomed to any face is proved by the increasing prevalence of Keith's ru...
PHILIP NORMAN There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining ...
NORMAN MAILER Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
NORMAN DOUGLAS History is a vast early warning system.
NORMAN COUSINS Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too l...
GREG NORMAN If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands ...
NORMAN MAILER The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
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