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“I had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill?”
“He wasn’t allowed to come with me there—my own rule for thislittle adventure.No more.Good-bye, Aspen.”
“So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions…”
“She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.”
“And Carolina will be cheering on the beautiful daughter of Magda and Shalom Singer, the new Lady America Singer!”
“I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud.”
“We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everything culminates in transcendence, and that nothing...”
“According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.”
“It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism.”
“Needless to say, this fragile experiment began by taking for granted the ugly conquest of Amerindians and Mexicans, the exclusion of women, the subordination of European working-class men and the c...”
“The office of the president is such a bastardized thing half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.”
“America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.”
“If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully”
“Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth that there are no gains without pains.”
“Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.”
“Poor Mexico so far from God and so near to the United States.”
“That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.”
“Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.”
“You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.”
“Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.”
