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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--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."
"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."
"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."
"Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date."
Explore more quotes by David McCallum
"But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there."
"I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting."
"I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives."
"Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create."
"We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress."
"I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye."
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