"The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America."

-- William Least Heat-Moon

#America Quotes

“My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy â€œfaction before blood.â€ Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior”
“When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.”
“I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.”

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“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
“What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?”
“He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.”
“If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.”
“...do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice us to proceed further and further in the penetration of what appears at first sight only in vague outline?”

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