Finish strong Quote by Veronica Rossi

“ It's strangely liberating. It's liberating, energising, and thrilling to step outside all of the rules of decorum and exist in a place I've…

— Wendy Wunder

“Different languages, different food, different customs. That's our neighborhood: wild and tangled and colorful. Like the best kind of garden.”

— Katherine Applegate

“I like weird. Conformity bores but is inescapable for the most part. We all follow something, even if it is following the goal of…

— Donna Lynn Hope

“... and it was extraordinary to me that some of the newspapers could have found good words for the butchery on the coast. But…

— V.S. Naipaul

“Americans had to tie every radical aspiration into a puritanical knot.”

— Susie Bright

“America: this strange, huge place where I now found myself living that I knew I didn’t understand. But I wanted to understand it. More…

— Neil Gaiman

“virtue of the American frontier and its allegedly salubrious”

— Eithne Luibhéid

“... I never looked for or found national differences in the various places of the world, only common features—eternal human nature.”

— Kató Lomb

“A streak of Puritanism runs deep within American society. Permissive and pioneering as we may be on the one hand, we are strict and…

— Edward M. Hallowell

“I think that deep inside yourself, in your heart, you're a Puritan. Yes, a Puritan. Or an ascetic; a sort of hermit monk. I…

— James Ramsey Ullman

“I heard obscenities everywhere, as though the world were populated entirely by longshoremen... Had no one told them that coarseness lacks dignity?”

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“...that ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.”

— Roland Barthes