"I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill."

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"I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill."

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

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"I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture."

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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."

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"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

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"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."

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"It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership."

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"The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that."

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"I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish."

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"After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect."

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"This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn."

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"I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books."

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"The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are."

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"People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know."

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"Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either."

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"I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried."

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