Quote by Norman Mailer
The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to lo

The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. – Norman Mailer

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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. – Norman Mailer

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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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I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made of wood. – Norman Mailer

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I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble — and you go to strip clubs. – Scott Caan

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Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs. – Tom Wolfe

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Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. – Jonathan Clements

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In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number. – Steven Wright

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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. – Soren Kierkegaard

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