America, thou half-brother of the world; with
something good and bad of every land.
-- Philip James
Bailey
1816-1902, British
Poet
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable
ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an
innocuous but piquant confection and to transform
their moral contradictions, or public discussion of
such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such
as are given for heroism on the battle field.
-- James Baldwin
1924-1987, American
Author
The
American Dream has run out of gas. The car has
stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its
images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's
over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now:
the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...
-- J. G. Ballard
1930-, British Author
America is the country where you can buy a lifetime
supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in
two weeks.
-- John Barrymore
1882-1942, American
Actor
