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“Americans were most likely good people...the only thing wrong with them, David thought, was that they spoke English very badly.” quote by Anne Holm — Download Open image

““Americans were most likely good people...the only thing wrong with them, David thought, was that they spoke English very badly.””

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The angrier you were, the less likely you were to think clearly.

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“But Johannes had said, "Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But…

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Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use…

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“For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded…

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You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

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The sun glistened on a drop of water as it fell from his hand to his knee. David wiped it off, but it left no tidemark: there was no more dirt to rub away. He took a deep breath and shivered. He was David. Everything else was washed away, the camp, its smell, its touch--and now he was David, his…

“Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to…

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“Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to decide things for himself; he had learnt what it felt like to wash in clean water in the sunshine until he was clean himself, and what it felt like to satisfy his hunger with food that tasted good; he…

“He'd forgotten the most important condition that made it possible for him to go on living: that he should never again grow fond of…

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“Johannes said greedy people can never be happy, and I would so much like to know what it feels like to be happy. Johannes…

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“Yes, he had made a good choice after all when he had chosen the God of the green pasture and the still waters! He…

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“God of the green pastures and the still waters, please don't help me. I want to do it by myself so that You'll know…

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“ Breakfast was ready. He could hear his father asking for coffee. Why did his father have to yell all the time? Couldn't he talk in a low voice? Everybody in the neighborhood knew everything that went on in their house on account of his father constantly shouting. The Moreys next door — you never heard a peep out of them,…

“What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree of his family nor the place of his birth. Not the coincidence of his citizenship. Not his social status nor his bank account. Not his trade nor his profession. An American is one who loves justice and believes in the dignity of man. An American is one…

“Anything that's strange is no good to the average American. If it doesn't have Chicago plumbing, it's nonsense.”

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“When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.”

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“Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls,…

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I wonder when someone will grow the testicles to say to americans everywhere, 'Enough with the self-medicating.' Seriously. What ever happened to dealing with…

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We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.

Winston Churchill

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“Taking away coffee from Americans is like taking away oil from the motors.”

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Americans will put up with anything, provided that It doesn't block traffic

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“The Europeans hate us because we’ve retired to live inside our advertisements, like hermits going into caves to contemplate. We sleep in symbolic bedrooms,…

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“Although dieting is a long standing American pastime, as a method of losing weight it stinks.”

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