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129 quotesIt is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Writers and Writing
Margaret Anderson
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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans.
America
Ruben Askew
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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
America
Philip James Bailey
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In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
Tradition
Russell (Wayne) Baker
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The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
Conformity
James Baldwin
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America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.
America
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Travel and Tourism
Robert Benchley
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Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
Immigration
Ambrose Bierce
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Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Wit
Ambrose Bierce
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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
America
Allan Bloom
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Manners
Malcolm Bradbury
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
America
John Mason Brown
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America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
America
Charlotte Bunch
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America is the best half-educated country in the world.
America
Nicholas Butler
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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
America
Lord Byron
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My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
Crime and Criminals
Al Capone
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I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
America
Charlie Chaplin
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America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
America
Ilka Chase
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Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
Uncategorised
Winston Churchill
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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
America
John Ciardi
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business.
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Calvin Coolidge
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The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
America
Calvin Coolidge
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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
War and Peace
Edward Dahlberg
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Books - Reading
Frank Dane
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I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Gentlemen
Charles Dickens
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun