David-foster-wallace Quote by David Foster Wallace

“You never feel more American than when you leave America.”

— David Lebovitz

“One of America’s most respected legacies is indeed that of rebelling for change.”

— Ben Carson

“It had happened again. I had met another American whose generosity, it began to seem to me, gushed out of the spirit of this…

— Peter Jenkins

“That American Dream that y'all fight so hard for over there ? The freedom that you would die to protect. They're yours too, you know.”

— Kristen Proby

“I am incapable of telling you not to repine and rebel, because I have so, to my cost, the imagination of all things, and…

— Henry James

“Your world is severely broken. You demanded your independence, and now you are angry with the One who loved you enough to give it…

— Wm. Paul Young

“To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it,…

— Kathleen Norris

“it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.”

— Bruce Cumings

“America didn't want any of us, and you haven't felt unwanted until America doesn't want you.”

— J.R. Moehringer

“We all need to withdraw from the world, occasionally. I think there are many ways people lose themselves into something they love to do.”

— Karen Donahue

“Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Every American is from somewhere else. Each is hated for what he brings that is different from the rest. We live in uneasy peace.…

— Scott Turow