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"The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth."
- Auden, W. H.

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2138">The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/331/">Auden, W. H.</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/subject/america/">America</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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