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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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