Quote by Peter Carey Download Open image ““Your American, you wouldn't know if you were up yourself.”” — Peter Carey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Now when people ask how I'm doing, I say that, as an American I'm more worried than ever before- but as a person, I'm… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“You were an American now and don’t let him hear you call yourself an Irish-American or a German-American.” — Mary Beth Smith Copy Share
“it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.” — Bruce Cumings Copy Share Image
“You made me proud, America. Sometimes I’m surprised at the things you say, but I don’t know why. You were always stronger than you… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.” — Alan Brown Copy Share Image
“Yes,' she said, her nod and smile so American and so misleading. 'You are not supposed to be here—you're supposed to be there.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I have traveled widely. I have seen this country in its infancy. I tell you what it will become. The public squares will be… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the rest of the world, things are bound to… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“He were still smiling but his voice were hard as a spoon rattling in a metal cup.” — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Would you rather have the lords and nobles back? What is Democracy for? Not so we can rob each other. Or cheat.' I said… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
