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John Ciardi

"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."

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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

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"I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in."

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"Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first."

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"There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience."

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"The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves."

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"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."

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"It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman."

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"Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends."

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"I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade."

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"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."

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"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions."
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"Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone."
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"Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!"
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"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen."
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"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."
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"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."
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"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."
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"The day will happen whether or not you get up."
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"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."
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