Quotes of: American-life Keyword

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed of a good lunch and a deep red wine that could soar.

Let the Great World Spin

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.

Student's Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters Set

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination — through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of Jesus we are more comfortable with.

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.

Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey

He seemed to swallow the lie I fed him. I hope he’s not still hungry. If he is, I’ll give him the illusory dessert known as the American Dream.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Because any guilt the size of a speck of dust, or shame, can crush even the best of men, in mountains of weight

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

I’m the new age miner, going to work at the company’s gold mines, where they charge me for the pick axe

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

His (Grant's) face has three expressions: deep thought, extreme determination, and great simplicity and calmness.

A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves?

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