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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


Adam Gopnik


#disney-world #humor #humor

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


Oscar Wilde


#bad-reviews #books #humor #literary-criticism #novels

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#humor #proportion #united-states #usa #humor

In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.


Billie Holiday


#america #love

Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?


Helen Hunt Jackson


#calendar #california #female-author #future #helen-hunt-jackson

She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.


Zora Neale Hurston


#women #love

When the first of us failed at growing or herding or plowing the fields, we were told that we could sign a piece of paper and get money for the land, without anyone taking it. Mortgage, this was called, a piece of banker’s cleverness that sounded good to many. I spoke against this trick, but who listened to Nanapush? People signed the paper, got money, came home night after night full of whiskey and food. Suddenly the foreclosure notices were handed out and the land was barred. It belonged to someone else.


Louise Erdrich


#food

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.


Chief Joseph


#native-american-wisdom #non-violence #wisdom #love

I have to return some videotapes


Bret Easton Ellis


#bale #bret #christian #easton #ellis

Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.


Scott Snyder


#century #hour #love #vampire #love






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