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"The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails."
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"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them."
"Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies."
"I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea."
"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish."
"With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand."
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"Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals."
"I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real."
"Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call "Nationalist Fundamentalism, which is as dangerous as "Religious Fundamentalism."
"In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it."
"Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos."
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
"What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong."
"What is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry?"
"Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism."
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