"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."

American, America, Fate, Prophecy

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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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"The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead."

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"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."

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"Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked."

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"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy."

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"By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication."

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"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."

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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."

Newt Gingrich, American Politician

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"I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen."

Nat King Cole, American Musician

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"So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are."

Muqtada al Sadr, Iraqi Clergyman

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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."

Tom Chapin, American Musician

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"Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer."

Marilyn Horne, American Musician

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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?"

William O. Douglas, American Judge

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"Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups."

George Michael, British Musician

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