285 Quotes About Americans
- Author A.L. Kennedy
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Some Americans simply had too many teeth, or too good, or too big - they were too obviously a later and better version of what the human being could be. They seemed almost dangerously well-prepared for feeding.
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- Author Henry Miller
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I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.
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- Author Bill Hicks
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This is the material, by the way, that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for the past 15 years. Gee, I wonder why we're hated the world over? Look at these fat Americans in the front row - 'Why doesn't he just hit fruit with a hammer?' Folks, I could have done that, walked around being a millionaire and franchising myself but no, I had to have this weird thing about trying to illuminate the collective unconscious and help humanity. Fucking moron.
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- Author James Baldwin
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The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
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- Author Morton Hunt
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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
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- Author Shashi Tharoor
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The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.
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- Author Karen Chance
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When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.
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- Author Adam Gopnik
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World
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- Author Ryū Murakami
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All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.
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