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quotes by topic America

" America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America. "

Death , America

" The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian. "

Robert A. Heinlein

Religion , America

" Look at him,‚Äù she said, shaking her head. ‚ÄúTravis Maddox: Mr. Mom. "

America

" She would have been a better fuck in Greece, maybe. America was a shitty place to fuck. "

Charles Bukowski

America

" Only a man can see in the face of a woman the girl she was. It is a secret which can be revealed only to a particular man, and, then, only at his insistence. But men have no secrets, except from women, and never grow up in the way women do. It is very much harder, and it takes much longer, for a man to grow up, and he could never do it at all without women. This is a mystery which can terrify and immobilize a woman, and it is always the key to her deepest distress. She must watch and guide, but he must lead, and he will always appear to be giving far more of his real attention to his comrades than he is giving to her. But that noisy, outward openness of men with each other enables them to deal with the silence and secrecy of women, that silence and secrecy which contains the truth of a man, and releases it. I suppose that the root of the resentment‚Äîa resentment which hides a bottomless terror‚Äîhas to do with the fact that a woman is tremendously controlled by what the man‚Äôs imagination makes of her‚Äîliterally, hour by hour, day by day; so she becomes a woman. But a man exists in his own imagination, and can never be at the mercy of a woman‚Äôs.‚ÄîAnyway, in this fucked up time and place, the whole thing becomes ridiculous when you realize that women are supposed to be more imaginative than men. This is an idea dreamed up by men, and it proves exactly the contrary. The truth is that dealing with the reality of men leaves a woman very little time, or need, for imagination. And you can get very fucked up, here, once you take seriously the notion that a man who is not afraid to trust his imagination (which is all that men have ever trusted) if effeminate. It says a lot about this country, because, of course, if all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination. Or women, for that matter: or men. "

Capitalism , America

Jacqueline Bisset

Business , Sexuality , Film , Europe , Theatre , America

America , Writing

Time , Being , America

Man , Fact , Marriage , Europe , Life , America

Natan Sharansky

Democracy , Thought , Germany , Italy , Russia , America