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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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There are four stages in a marriage. First theres the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. – Norman Mailer

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There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. – Norman Mailer

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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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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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Las Vegas is sort of like how God would do it if he had money. – Steve Wynn

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