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"How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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"When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well."
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"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
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"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
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"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."
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"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
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"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."
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"How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal."
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"Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland."
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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."
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"Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's."
Creation

"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
Beauty

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
Information

"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
Civilization

"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
Evil

"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
Reason

"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."
Criticism

"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race."
Trust

"I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual."
Faith

"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
Faith
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