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Quotes from Superman Comes to the Supermarket — Norman Mailer

1923–2007 United States

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The concept of hero is antagonistic to impersonal social progress, to the belief that social ills can be solved by social legislating, for it sees a country as all-but-trapped in its character until it has a hero who reveals the character of the country to itself.

Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Norman Mailer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.