#erica

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

#american literature #anyone #bad #been #i

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#dealing #familiar #hysterical #laughing #laughter

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support? ↗

— Sean Hannity

#american public #garner #hyperbole #president #propaganda

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#controlled #course #development #endangered #others

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America. ↗

— Anita Diament

#adolescent #almost #america #everything #good

Laughter is America's most important export. ↗

— Walt Disney

#export #important #laughter #most

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America. ↗

— James H. Douglas

#america #community #ensure #family #hard

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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I think America has a brilliant future. ↗

— Harold Evans

#brilliant #future #i #i think #think

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#avoid #legally #paying #really #taxes