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"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
"It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish."
"I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat."
"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."
"I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported."
"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
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"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes."
"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."
"To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom."
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