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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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"Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret."
"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
"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."
"Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man."
"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."
"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."
"The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero."
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