Horror Quote by Paul La Farge

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

— Joshua Ferris

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

“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 was an American citizen too; a citizen who had to watch his step, a citizen who had to distrust the police and…

— Walter Mosley

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

“one must take into account the shocking fact that we live on a world that spins. After considering this truth, nothing should come as…

— Thomas Ligotti

“There's nothing more frightening to me than a character who thinks he knows what a real American is – mainly because it generally turns…

— Donald Hamilton

“The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority.”

— Bryant McGill

“I dream that one day, history will look upon me as having been one of the voices that helped to save America from a…

— Malcolm X

“As I write this, we are in an especially divisive era in American politics. There are questions about who holds power, who abuses it,…

— Libba Bray

“This is the clearest, most powerful summons yet, TO ALL OF US, to restore the American story to its rightful, vital place in American…

— David McCullough