It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's about the soul of America, really. What people brought to America; what found them when they came; and the things that lie sleeping beneath it all.
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Related The purpose of the book is to see what happened to America; both to the people in it, and to its rel... HAROLD EVANS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to i... AZAR NAFISI Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see. AJAY NAIDU It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They ... ANDY WARHOL What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise. BARBARA JORDAN People care about America. People love America. People want America to treat it with dignity and res... ALI NOORANI As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam t... LOUIS FARRAKHAN to the victor go the spoils THE AMERICA When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Is... THEODORE WHITE I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for Ameri... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of it... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its... LORD BYRON You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa Cit... BHARATI MUKERIEE America is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big tee... ABIODUN OYEWOLE Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a l... DAVID BYRNE I haven't found that many differences playing in America as opposed to playing in Europe. In my eyes... IAN POULTER As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness. ANDREW O'HAGAN The whole world depends on America ultimately, particularly Britain. And also, I love America - a ma... PAUL JOHNSON People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have b... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It shows America in a way that the world needs to see it right now ... and a way that America needs ... ORLANDO BLOOM America is a living idea. It isn't only the tenets of its founding, but also the terms of its fu... CHARLES M. BLOW What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freed... MARILYN VOS SAVANT I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the b... STEVE SOUTHERLAND The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Prod... DAVID MILCH I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery,... BHARATI MUKHERJEE America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? AZAR NAFISI Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and t... AL JARREAU Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live ... GREIL MARCUS America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the B... ISABEL WILKERSON If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she ... CARL SANDBURG For Nation States, and the adversaries within America's boarders (special interest groups, cyber cal... AMERICA I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane. CRAIG FERGUSON What America is tasting now is something insignificant compared to what we have tasted for scores of... OSAMA BIN LADEN Americans are proud of this country. They want to see things get better, and they want to be part of... PHIL GINGREY I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Wint... TA-NEHISI COATES When they the American soldiers came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion..... WOODROW WILSON If she America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if ... CARL SANDBURG The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise... DEE BROWN America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is free... JOHN UPDIKE White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety h... JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its stre... ADAM SCHIFF As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green ... DYLAN MORAN Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy... RICHARD TRUMKA A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its o... DAVID HOROWITZ If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist ... J. D. VANCE There are those on the coasts that might snicker in their sleeves, but the town represents what many... ROBERT SCHMUHL America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What ... SHIRLEY CHISHOLM America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and f... LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a ... DAVID CAMERON As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishi... ARNE GLIMCHER I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in b... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ec... HENRY ROLLINS America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the sam... JESSE JACKSON Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the... WOODROW T. WILSON It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. T... MOHSIN HAMID Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. F... FLORENCE KING And what is that religion that sanctions, even by its silence, all that is embraced in the 'Peculiar... SOJOURNER TRUTH America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and th... ALISTAIR COOKE The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America... KEVIN MCCARTHY I think the answer to civil disorder in America, the answer to police problems in America, the answe... JANET RENO I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America. SOFIA VERGARA It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Ru... DAN QUAYLE I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of ... GEORGE WASHINGTON I feel really proud of the movie and I think its properly subversive and its very human. I think its... MERYL STREEP The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of... AUDIE MURPHY America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend... MUQTADA AL SADR The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. T... GERTRUDE STEIN I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved t... ANN PATCHETT It is a little bit of the season as many people are away for the summer combined with lingering conc... FELIX BONI America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living... MIKE HARDING But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the righ... JONAH GOLDBERG The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the... LYNDON B. JOHNSON I don't even think that you can call Iron Maiden 100% real metal. Iron Maiden is beyond that and alw... BRUCE DICKINSON The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence... LEWIS MUMFORD Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America... DON YAEGER When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a con... MARK HAMILL When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic i... CALEB CUSHING If I may be permitted to liken America to the human body, then I think it is fair to say that Califo... JEREMY CLARKSON It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all... VAN MORRISON I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an i... EDDIE HUANG The reality is when you make 'America First' a bumper sticker and pump it overseas, what you... STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and cont... ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN It was a very gratifying experience. You learn to really appreciate the value of medical care in Ame... DR. VASU MALEPATI To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but d... AARON RODGERS For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because i... FERDINAND MOUNT There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. T... BARACK OBAMA I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and abo... EDUARDO GALEANO I hope the story of 2011 is that America gets its mojo back. You've got to remember that America... JAMIE DIMON Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body. GEORGE CARLIN
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NEIL GAIMAN Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel. NEIL GAIMAN So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines a... NEIL GAIMAN When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ... NEIL GAIMAN Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me ... NEIL GAIMAN As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th... NEIL GAIMAN I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi... NEIL GAIMAN Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge... NEIL GAIMAN Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l... NEIL GAIMAN To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu... NEIL GAIMAN Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe... NEIL GAIMAN I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines ... NEIL GAIMAN What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven? NEIL GAIMAN Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as ... NEIL GAIMAN The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has ge... NEIL GAIMAN Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w... NEIL GAIMAN