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"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."
"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."
"If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find."
"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
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"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them."
"Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well."
"Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find."
"Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus."
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