"And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be."

Class, America, Fact

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"And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be."

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"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."

Fanny Kemble, English Actress

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"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."

Anthony Trollope, English Author

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"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."

Martin Lewis Perl, American Physicist

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"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

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"They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian."

Matthew Sweet, American Musician

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"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."

Martin C. Smith, American Journalist

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"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."

Martin C. Smith, American Journalist

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"Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life."

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"She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages."

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"My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy."

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"It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from."

Family, Children, May, Self, Writing

"The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest."

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"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."

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"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."

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"I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing."

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"I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?"

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"Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"

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