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“America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.”
“You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.”
“I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, ...”
“They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.”
“...while epic fantasy is based on the fairy tale of the just war, thats not one youll find in Grimm or Disney, and most will never recognize the shape of it. I think the fantasy genre pitches its t...”
“While the post-Civil War southerners were pushing as fast as they could into the New South, were grasping Yankee dollars with enthusiasm, they purified their motives in the well of Lost Causism. Po...”
“Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?""Come now," said Yousef. "Everyone fights an American war.”
“Everyone fights an American war.”
“They might watch American movies, wear American clothes, even read American books but Bush and the Iraq War have made actual American people social lepers; she only has to open her mouth in some pl...”
“The Government finally decidedTo wage the war all-out. Defeat is Un-American. And they took to the air,Their women beside themin bouffant hairdosputting nail-polish on thegunship cannon-buttons.And...”
“I just want to keep you safe.I smile. Americans can be so naive.”
“I knew that these people on their way to work or home or dinner had no idea what it was they were supporting. They did not have a clue as to what war was like. What it made people see, and what it ...”
“He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the same. Death wouldn't forget about him.”
“The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.”
“We live in the land of opportunities. People come from all over the world to hustle and work their way up to places that they could only imagine or dream of.”
“When Hughes writes, in the first two lines of his poem, Let America be America again/ Let it be the dream it used to be, he acknowledges that America is primarily a dream, a hope, an aspiration, th...”
“I love America," he'd tell us. We were going to make a million dollars manufacturing objects we had seen in dreams that night.”
“To do things right, we need to UNITE black and white, red and blue, blue and white - all stars and stripes. We need to either apply all the lessons from the past - or get rid of all the stories and...”
“The streets of America may not have been paved with gold, but they were cobbled in middle-class dreams.”
“America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emph...”
