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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. – 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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Marriage
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Norman Mailer
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Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. – Norman Mailer

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Hmmm
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Norman Mailer
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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. – Norman Mailer

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Conformity
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How a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates a minority! – Leonard H. Robbins

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Minorities

The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don – Henrik Ibsen

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Minorities

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. – Henry David Thoreau

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Minorities

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progress. – Raymond B. Fosdick

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Minorities

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it. – Voltaire

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Theres always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, its that trickle down effect. – Michelle Pfeiffer

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movies

Polite conversation is rarely either. – Fran Lebowitz

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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? – H. L. Mencken

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