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"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."
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"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."
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"I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen."
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"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."
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"Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated."
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"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
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"Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition."
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"I'm an American before any party preference."
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"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."
Fact
"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
American
"He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors."
Misunderstanding
"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."
Poetry
"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."
Age
"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."
Man
"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."
Home
"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."
Man
"To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all."
Manners
"The blind date that has stood you up: your life."
Life
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