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America Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity,…
- Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
- Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we…
- Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on…
- Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.
- Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who…
More America Quotes
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon