Norah Vincent

Writer

1968-09-20

Books by Norah Vincent

Self-Made Man
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Voluntary madness
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Adeline
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Quotes by Norah Vincent

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.
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I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.
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... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.
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I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.
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... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.
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You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.
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Race is not the stumbling block to progress it once was, in large part because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race.
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Smokers, like so many of us, are mavericks when they're healthy but parasites when they're not. They trash their bodies and then expect the rest of us to pick up the pieces, as well as most of the tab for the damage they've so defiantly done to themselves.
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Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, scourge of liberals everywhere, may be hopelessly partisan, but he's never claimed to be anything else. He has an agenda, and he's honest about it. The New York Times is no less wildly partisan and has no less of an agenda, yet it presents itself as the tame word of God. And therein lies the real problem.
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Except in extreme cases of biochemical imbalance, giving over your brain to chemical tinkering is the ultimate act of nihilism. It amounts to a denial of the soul or at least of consciousness, awareness, struggle - and a dismissal of everything about the human condition that is not organic, including art, religion, philosophy and love.
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Secondhand smoke is toxic to bystanders.
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There is no good, objective reason to believe that legalizing gay marriage would adversely affect traditional marriage, just as there is no good reason to believe that restricting marriage to a man and a woman would resuscitate an institution whose problems are human, not cultural.
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Stupidity always has been the unfortunate side effect of too much privilege. Nowhere has this been truer than in the United States, where people routinely espouse untenable political positions that only a spoiled child would ever entertain.
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You can fire a professor because he's a bad or unqualified teacher, but you shouldn't be able to fire him because he expresses unpopular views. Otherwise, the 1st Amendment would be meaningless. After all, how free can your speech be if your job is in peril if you say the wrong thing?
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I have a lot more sympathy for men. I understand that they too are victims of the so-called patriarchy, that their roles have been as toxic as ours, and that they haven't yet been liberated from them.
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You've got to lie skillfully to get elected, because you've got to convince a whole zoo of self-involved ciphers that you've got every one of their self-serving, solipsistic interests at heart.
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