"All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers."

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Source : Guillermo Gomez-Pena (1993). “Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry”

Guillermo Gomez-Pena

#America Quotes #Borders Quotes #Continents Quotes

“It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life. . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.”
“Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get the hang of the story simply missed the point: namely, that it is a collection of short stories.”
“The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.”
“Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.”
“I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.”
“What positive things have you said to yourself today? Acknowledge your greatness.”
“Which are you first, a Jew or an American? A Jew.”
“Lou Brock was a great base stealer but today I am the greatest.”

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