A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Norman Mailer

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Topic

Democracy

Author

Norman Mailer

Source

The Presidential Papers

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Mailer, Norman. The Presidential Papers. Bantam Books, 1964, preface.

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I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
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James Arlington Wright

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James Arlington Wright
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Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
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Time
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Wright, James. "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota." The Paris Review, 1961.

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Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

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Herbert Marcuse
Source
One-Dimensional Man
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Language
English
Time
1964 1960s 20th century
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Marcuse, Herbert. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Beacon Press, 1964, ch. 1.