"It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe."

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"It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe."

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"America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still."

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"I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union."

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"He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage."

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"The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid."

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"Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies."

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"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?"

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"Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints."

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"The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality."

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"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."

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"To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live."

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"I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all."

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"If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it."

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"An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue."

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"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."

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"Nothing is my last word on anything."

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