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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."

"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."
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"I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character."

"We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race."

"There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video."

"I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were."

"Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to."
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