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"If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!"
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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."

"If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find."

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
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"And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s."

"If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!"
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