American Quote by Margaret Atwood

“He smelt of English sweat and English beer, and it was a good cure for dead faces.”

— Robert Westall

“In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow…

— Tim O'Brien

“He could almost have been an American, he was so tan and had such good teeth, but I could tell straight away that he…

— Sylvia Plath

“America cannot mend if its wounds are constantly covered.”

— Malika J. Stevely

“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long…

— Carson McCullers

“There was pain in him - like a blister, all that was left of some lost yesterday that Time had pruned off him.”

— Frank Herbert

“made to the American people. He”

— Bill O'Reilly

“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long…

— Carson McCullers

“He'd left a new nightmare behind him, like an infection in a sore—the insult after the injury.”

— Stephenie Meyer

“He embodied an enduring archetype: the obscure immigrant who comes to America, re-creates himself, and succeeds despite a lack of proper birth and breeding.”

— Ron Chernow

“In the old days he had clutched life with such violence that the juice of it ran out between his fingers and was lost,…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern propriety—and had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two former masked…

— Nenia Campbell