America is like one of those old-fashioned
six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing
two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and
have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off
fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and
still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We
can have substantial parts of the population
committing suicide, and still run and look
fairly good.
-- Thomas Mcguane
People in America, of course, live in all sorts
of fashions, because they are foreigners, or
unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;
people live like that, but Americans live in
white detached houses with green shutters.
Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
-- Margaret Mead
1901-1978,
American Anthropologist
Perhaps I am still very much of an American.
That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In
the eyes of a European, what am I but an
American to the core, an American who exposes
his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I
am a product of this land of plenty, a believer
in superabundance, a believer in miracles.
-- Henry Miller
1891-1980,
American Author
I
see America spreading disaster. I see America as
a black curse upon the world. I see a long night
settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned
the world withering at the roots.
-- Henry Miller
1891-1980,
American Author
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Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose
passions are easily mobilized by demagogues,
newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators
and such like. To call this a society of
free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to
offer the world besides the superabundant
loot which we recklessly plunder from the
earth under the maniacal delusion that this
insane activity represents progress and
enlightenment?
-- Henry
Miller
1891-1980,
American Author
I have never been able to look upon America
as young and vital but rather as prematurely
old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a
chance to ripen.
-- Henry
Miller
1891-1980,
American Author
Being blunt with your feelings is very
American. In this big country, I can be as
brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los
Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as
brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia,
as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm
Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town
of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as
the inland waterway that rubs up against my
former home in Virginia Beach.
-- Martina
Navratilova
1956-,
American Tennis Player
If you think the United States has stood
still, who built The largest shopping center
in the world?
-- Richard M.
Nixon
1913-1994,
Thirty-seventh President of the USA
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