“The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.”

— Norman Mailer

On Joe DiMaggio's marriage to Marilyn Monroe, in Marilyn (1973)

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“Who on earth could blame them? Ah, no wonder
the men of Troy and Argives under arms have suffered
years of agony all for her, for such a woman.
Beauty, terrible beauty!
A deathless goddess—so she strikes our eyes!”

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: Surely there is no blame on Trojans and strong-greaved Achaians
if for long time they suffer hardship for a woman like this one.
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