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“Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out and two when it is in.”
“Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs digest the food and shovel the shit out.”
“The true America is the Middle West and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.”
“You say to your soldier 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.”
“America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways but even if it won't do those things it remains the least constrained society on earth.”
“Good Americans when they die go to Paris.”
“New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past disowning it whenever it can.”
“Why if you're not in New York you are camping out.”
“That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.”
“New York the nation's thyroid gland.”
“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.”
“As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.”
“The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is rather a lust of the total ego for recognition even for eminence. More than elsewh...”
“After twenty annual visits I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.”
“A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'”
“New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its predicted end ... it is the first American section to be fin...”
“A Bostonian - an American broadly speaking.”
“I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.”
“I'm from Indiana the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.”
“Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.”
