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"Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"
"People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!"
"Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others."
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"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."
"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man."
"The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner."
"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."
"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
"If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."
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