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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

— Norman Mailer

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one.

Interview in Writers at Work Third Series (1967)

We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art.

Cannibals and Christians (1966)

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977)

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

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There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Thomas Ford

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Mahatma Gandhi

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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