Quotations About / On: AMERICA

  • 41.
    They'll see how beautiful I am
    And be ashamed—

    I, too, am America.
    (Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. I, Too (l. 16-18). . . Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. (1959) Vintage Books.)
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  • 42.
    The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
    (Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), U.S. author, critic. repr. In On the Contrary (1961). "America the Beautiful," first published in Commentary (September 1947).)
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  • 43.
    If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
    (Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), British writer, social critic. "Marriage," vol. 3, Society in America (1837).)
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  • 44.
    America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
    (John Updike (b. 1932), U.S. author, critic. Problems, "How to Love America and Leave it at the Same Time," (1980).)
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  • 45.
    If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
    (Richard Dean Rosen (b. 1949), U.S. journalist, critic. "Psychobabble," Psychobabble: Fast Talk and Quick Cure in the Era of Feeling (1977).)
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  • 46.
    In America, every female under fifty calls herself a "girl."
    (H.E. Bates, British screenwriter, and David Lean. Jane Hudson (Katherine Hepburn), Summertime.)
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  • 47.
    In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
    (Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. essayist. "Melancholy Objects," On Photography (1977).)
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  • 48.
    There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.
    (H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (18801956), U.S. journalist, critic. A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30, p. 621, Knopf (1949).)
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  • 49.
    I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
    (Michael Malone (b. 1942), U.S. author. Guardian (London, July 7, 1989).)
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  • 50.
    Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
    (D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. "Things," The Lovely Lady (1933).)
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