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"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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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."

"I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."

"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."

"If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it."
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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

"It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."

"And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation."
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