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"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
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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."
"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."
"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
"I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps."
"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."
"Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today."
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"Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
"For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood."
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."
"There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dA©nouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display."
"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."
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