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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."

"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."

"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."

"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."

"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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"It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty."

"When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it."

"Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand."
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