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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."
"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."
"The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light."
"I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good."
"I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me."
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"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."
"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."
"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
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