Harlot's Ghost (1991) (edit title/settings)

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• “Men work to develop their evil skills. Women—it is my belief—merely summon them.”

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• “When your best and worst motive agree on the same action, watch the juices flow.”

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• Happiness is experienced most directly in the intervals between terror.

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• Happiness was that resonance one knows in the heart when the ends of oneself come to concordance in the morning air.

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• The paradox of sex is that it always negotiates some kind of contract with love—no matter what, love and sex will never be entirely without relations.

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• Some people, said Kittredge, become so mired in evil spirits that they believe they can destroy whole armies of malignity by their own demise. It is like burning a barn to wipe out the termites who might otherwise infest the house.

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• Evil, he had once informed me, was to know what was good, and do one’s best to tamper with it. Whereas wickedness was merely one’s readiness to raise the stakes when one did not know what one was doing.

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• Is there any state more agreeable than living and working like a wicked angel?

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• Love is outrageous. One must endanger oneself to preserve it—a likely reason why so few people stay in love.

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• He also quotes Camus: “Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.”

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1. Norman Mailer (Author)

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• Dashiell Hammett Award (Finalist, 1991: Crime)

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• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( M ) › Mailer, Norman
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary