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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
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"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."
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"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."
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"American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it."
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"Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire."
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"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America."
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"I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once."
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"An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards."
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Explore more quotes by Henry James
"Her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it."
Irony
"My envy's not dangerous, it wouldn't hurt a mouse."
Philosophy
"I don't want everyone to like me, I should think less of myself if some people did."
Self-Improvement
"That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when the famous 'atmosphere' it is supposed to lack was not even missed, when literature was lonely there and art and form akmost impossible, he had found the means to live and write like one of the first; to be free and general and not at all afraid; to feel, understand, and express everything."
Creativity
"He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts."
Creativity
"To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own."
Criticism
"It's time to start living the life you've imagined."
Motivation
"One never said the things one wanted - one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something."
Communication
"He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures."
Duty
"She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth."
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