American life Quote by Joshua Ferris

“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.”

— Joshua Ferris

“America wasn’t perfect, but nothing touched by human hands could be. There was greed, corruption, selfishness, pettiness, hatred. But there were good things too.…

— wildbow

“I realized that it was precisely because of America’s glaring imperfections that I should seek to participate in its progress, carve a place in…

— Eboo Patel

“For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.”

— Liza M. Wiemer

“We’re all fascinated with corruption, the more glamorous the better. ”

— Rick Owens

“I have a tremendous fascination with the United States of America, the grand, swirling variousness of it, the way it siphons off the ambitious,…

— Roland Merullo

“Life is strange and funny with many winding roads ahead...but the roads of greed and  hypocrisy will lead to a person's downfall each and…

— Timothy Pina

“Donald Trump, America’s imperfections personified.”

— David Litt

“As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect”

— Joao Matod

“I existed on my own terms. I was different my entire life. Some called me divergent, wild, crazy, unpredictable and unconformed—an apostate to the…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Perfection cannot endure in an imperfect world.”

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“Be an imperfectionist. Perfectionists spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of the important things.”

— Ray Dalio