"I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief."
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"We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night."
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"Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back"
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"They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining."
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"I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else."
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"The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts."
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"An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them."
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"And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth."
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"It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected."
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"America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle."
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"There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America."
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"When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald."
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"It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners."
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"Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America."
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"America is not a country, it is a world."
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"America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself."
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"America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000."
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"Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world."
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"Today, many people are coming to America from very unstable situations. A hundred years ago, people came to America because they wanted to be Americans."
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"The feminization of America has made emotions sacrosanct while condemning as cold and unfeeling rigorous concepts such as duty andhonor. Propelled by incessant hosannas to woman's "finer" this and "softer" that, we make emotional decisions instead of ethical ones and then congratulate ourselves for having "heart."
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