I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.
Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the...
It had to be that Americans were taught, from elementary school, to always say something in class, no matter what. [...] They never said I don't know. They said, instead, I'm not sure, which did not g...
I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.
Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive.
People who leave Washington D.C. do so by way of the box - ballot or coffin.
America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.
America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.
The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.
What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree of his family nor the place of his birth. Not the coincidence of his citizenship. Not his social status nor his bank acc...
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came an Indian said simply 'Ours.'
The true America is the Middle West and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.
The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.
You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact informati...
Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.
I had the feeling that all over America such stupid arguments were taking place on street corners and in bars and restaurants. All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets an...
The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game ! and lost.
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
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