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"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
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"In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also."
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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
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"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish."
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"We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second."
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"I would entertain the apparently fading idea that patriotism that serves the self is greed dressed in the garments of liberty and adorned with the fashion accessories of other associated patriotic notions."
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"Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light."
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"I have never felt so alive-so free-so proud. I love my country. I love my America."
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"He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn't choose where he was born, and where he was born didn't choose him."
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"As the wine went down in the bottles, patriotism arose in the three men. And when the wine was gone they went down the hill arm in arm for comradeship and safety, and they walked into Monterey. In front of an enlistment station they cheered loudly for America and dared Germany to do her worst. They howled menaces at the German Empire until the enlistment sergeant awakened and put on his uniform and came into the street to silence them. He remained to enlist them."
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"America is a willingness of the heart."
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"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
Patriotism
"My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead."
Family
"It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth."
Ambiguity
"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
Poems
"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
Fiction
"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
Location
"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."
Imagination
"As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari."
Dream
"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
Family
"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."
Fiction
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