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LitQuotes Found 4 America Quotes(Click on items in Author or Source column to see more items from that author or title.)
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| "In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man . . . " | Sinclair Lewis | Babbitt |  | | "She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm." | Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | | | Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it . . . | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | | | He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neckties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches. | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | |
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