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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash."
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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."
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"America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man."
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"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."
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"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."
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"To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing."
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"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."
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"Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America."
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"Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America."
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"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
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"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."
Family
"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
Poetry
"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it."
Needs
"In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it."
Nature
"A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon."
Emotional
"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."
Earth
"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
Thought
"I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!"
Psychology
"In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful."
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