283 Quotes About American

Will there be no more irisesin your garden tomorrow morning,or perhaps any rainbows that covetyour roof will melt into Rorschach pastelsin your gutters and birdsongs in your windowsturn into shrill shriekings as you recallhow, for one moment, you were as braveand equal to beauty as that which you feel?Can’t a world end gloriously?

Shakespeare’s felicity is so often taughtit is easy to overlook how tautthe sinews in his neck musthave been when he grasped his pen, or the muskthat exuded from the fat of his chinbelow a somewhat chthonic grin—life wrestled death on his desk when he composed.

All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I'm beginning to see why people don't do it more often.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.