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. Perfection was…

— Joshua Ferris

“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

“Once upon a time there was a war...and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and…

— Denis Johnson

“America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many.”

— Ralph Ellison

“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

“The American character, and the American dream, could never be disentangled, and ultimately the latter would go only as far as the former would…

— Anonymous

“I want people to understand something I learned only recently: that for those of us lucky enough to live the American Dream, the demons…

— J.D. Vance

“We project an illusion of our ideals instead of seeing other people as they really are.”

— Jocelyn Soriano

“I was proud to be in America, not just because here I found my voice but because the country made me the woman I…

— Soraya Mire

“I am not one thing. I am many things that America has been in my time. I had enough sense to keep moving, learning,…

— Ray Bradbury

“You can only solve what you have the courage to see. By learning, you are helping America to begin to conduct itself differently.”

— Dylan Ratigan

“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As…

— Mohsin Hamid