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"America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick."

Abish, Walter · America · 2 fans >>
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"As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore."

Adams, Henry Brooks · America · 1 fans >>
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"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."

Adams, John · America · 1 fans >>
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"Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly."

Arnold, Matthew · America · 1 fans >>
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"We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans."

Askew, Ruben · America · 6 fans >>
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"It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die."

Asquith, Margot · America · 2 fans >>
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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. · America · 0 fans >>
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"God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich."

Auden, W. H. · America · 2 fans >>
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"America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land."

Bailey, Philip James · America · 1 fans >>
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"Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field."

Baldwin, James · America · 2 fans >>
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"As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore."

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