“In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.”

—  Norman Mailer, book The Presidential Papers

The Fourth Presidential Paper — Foreign Affairs : Letter To Castro
The Presidential Papers (1963)

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