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"It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage."
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"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."
"If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react."
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."
"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
"America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are."
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"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."
"Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved."
"The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking."
"Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them."
"Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?"
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."
"We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity."
"The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter."
"So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance."
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