Conceit Quote by Wally Lamb We Are Water

“America is a melting pot, the people at the bottom get burned while all the scum floats to the top.”

— Charlie King

“The notion that the intense and unprecedented mixture of ethnic and religious groups in American life was soon to blend into a homogeneous end…

— David L. Sills

“I wanted to believe that as generations turned over, those coming into economic and political power would build a different, better, more expansive world,…

— Anna Wiener

“People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true.”

— Julian Houston

“The thing about the truth was that it sometimes tore apart the perfect world we forced ourselves into believing existed.”

— Nicole Sobon

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“It was true what they said about an American woman's southern drawl being able to melt a man.”

— Lyla Dune

“Just because no one creed, religion or class stood prouder than any other didn’t mean a whole nation was lacking in essence.”

— John Marrs

“It wasn’t about believing this or that, it wasn’t about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to…

— Mark Haddon

“my willingness to assume everyone believes in the values with which this country was founded and I was raised is flawed. I”

— Joelle Charbonneau

“Belief is the fuel that drives reality.”

— Steven Redhead

“The world is full of people who believe what they want to be true.”

— Dianne Salerni