"The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history."

-- Norman Corwin

#Character Quotes #Toss Quotes #Aspect Quotes

“I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.”
“I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.”
“You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.”
“I was in a very deep state of shock after that. I had raised my horse since he was six months old and he was more like a child to me, so I took it very hard. They never caught who did it and the stable did a great job of covering facts up so it couldn't be proved that it was the direct result of the article, but the coincidence was striking.”
“You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
“If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.”
“I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.”
“There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and wives, parents and children, Elvis, Apollo, Walt Whitman, rhythms of its politics. Manthology is a remarkably honest and enormously heartening collection.”

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