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In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.


Norman Cousins

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NORMAN DAVIES He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.
NORMAN TEBBIT I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creati...
NORMAN MAILER Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
NORMAN MAILER I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father's tales about the blitz of Man...
NORMAN DAVIES Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always livi...
NORMAN MAILER Courage brother, do not stumble,
though thy path be dark as night:
There is a star to gui...
NORMAN MACLEOD Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's...
NORMAN MACLEAN The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smal...
NORMAN MAILER I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. ...
GREG NORMAN Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
NORMAN MAILER The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they wil...
NORMAN THOMAS The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.
NORMAN SHERRY America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredi...
NORMAN MAILER In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that....
NORMAN MAILER There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democrac...
NORMAN MAILER I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
NORMAN MAILER Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find...
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