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Harold Pinter

"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."

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"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."

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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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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

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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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"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

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"I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."

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"Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world."

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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."

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"It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver."

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