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I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#courses #doubts #helps #i #people

The Society of American Civil Engineers, someone who's going to come in and say to the public, we've looked at, we've examined, we've reviewed the repairs and we think they're strong enough to withstand the type of hurricane that - that could hit the city this season. ↗

— Marc Morial

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I'm the American Winston Churchill. ↗

— Michael Moriarty

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Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. ↗

— Wesley Morris

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In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#country #else #everybody #everybody else #means

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#american writers #being #called #enjoy #native

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. ↗

— Van Morrison

#attached #beat #essence #folk #folk music

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. ↗

— Lance Morrow

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