#ric

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. ↗

— Florence King

#about #age #american #american dream #asleep

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ↗

— Florence King

#american life #between #choose #destroys #eroticism

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. ↗

— Florence King

#avoid #between #counselors #couples #gone

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. ↗

— Florence King

#american #known #lost #meaning #mind

Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer. ↗

— Larry King

#cnn #communications #five #had #intern

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share. ↗

— Stephen King

#america #apologize #being #being rich #fair

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. ↗

— Stephen King

#assume #care #charitable #debts #education

What a privilege it is to be an American! ↗

— Thomas Starr King

#privilege

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#himself #long #man #modern #modern war

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#developing #difficult #electric #facilities #gasoline