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  1. Norman Mailer _ The Executioner's Song

    Gary Mark Gilmore: Go down on me, partner... I need itNicole Baker: Don't call me partner.Gary Mark Gilmore: No, darlin'... I love it... I love itNicole Baker: Yeah, you and seven other motherfuckers.
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  2. Norman Mailer _ The Executioner's Song

    I'm not saying its right to break the law. I'm not talkin about that-but these prisons as they exist are wrong.
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  3. Norman Mailer _ The Executioner's Song

    When you start to open a door, the pressure has to be greatest in the beginning, yet the door moves the least.
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  4. Norman Mailer _ The Executioner's Song

    but I am infinitely more sorrowful about the two victims' families than the fact Mr. Gilmore is no longer alive.
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  5. Norman Mailer _ The Executioner's Song

    It was getting to be the best conversation she ever had. She had always thought the only way to have conversations like that was in your head. Then
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  6. Norman Mailer _ The Executioner's Song

    Then the Warden said, "Do you have anything you'd like to say?" and Gary looked up at the ceiling and hesitated, then said, "Let's do it." That was it. The most pronounced amount of courage, Vern decided, he'd ever seen, no quaver, no throatiness, right down the line.
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  7. Norman Mailer _ The Executioner's Song

    Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree.
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  8. Norman Mailer _ The Executioner's Song

    It was better than floods of misery that a son of her flesh had killed the sons of other mothers. That burned in her heart like the pain which flared in the arthritis of her knees. Pain was a boring conversationalist who never stopped, just found new topics. Bess
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  9. Norman Mailer _ The Executioner's Song

    but when the call came from Shirley Pedler to help in organizing the Utah Coalition Against the Death Penalty, she knew she would go out in the world again with her freaky blond hair, blond to everyone's disbelief-at the age of fifty-four, go out in her denims and chin-length-hanging-down-straight vanilla hair to that Salt Lake world where nobody would ever make the mistake of thinking she was a native Utah lady inasmuch as Utah was the Beehive State. The girls went big for vertical hair-dos, pure monuments to shellac.
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  10. Norman Mailer _ The Executioner's Song

    Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can maximize its essence by choosing an alternative that preserves the greatest dignity and some tranquility of mind.
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