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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.


Norman Cousins

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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...
NORMAN DOUGLAS