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American Quotes by Florence King
- Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to…
- America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an…
- The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of…
- The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now…
- We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the…
- Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
- People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at…
- American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
- The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and…
- Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. — Irving Babbitt
- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
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