"History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky."

-- Stephen Spender

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“The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged.”
“The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.”

Source : "Novelist Jay McInerney on Getting Your Novel Underway". Interview with Anne Bowling, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.
“I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say what it represents really because it's been said so many times.”
“To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.”
“A body in movement is its philosophy.”
“Take a look at the police and how they treat you, Take a look at these corporations that cheat you. Democrats and Republicans are all see-through. Now we votin for the lesser of two evils... Man, don't let 'em deceive you. This is an autocracy, not a democracy, But to call this a democracy without mock interest In the laws of society? That's called hypocrisy.”
“All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.”
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”

Source : "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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