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"I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America."
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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."

"If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find."

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
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"Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country."

"To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished."

"He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor."

"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal."

"The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions."

"I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me."
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