"In terms of America, I think any profound consideration is bound to return us to the notion of twins because, though you certainly can contend there are many Americas, our history has been binary from the beginning, with its hairline fracture down the country's center between what American has wanted to be and what America has been. That fracture is slavery, of course. To some extent it's still slavery, in that collectively we refuse to come to grips with the American fact of slavery."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Steve Erickson

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #America Quotes

“Strew your gladness on earth's bed, So be merry, so be dead.”

Source : Charles Hamilton Sorley (1978). “The poems and selected letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley”
“I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.2, VM eBooks
“I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.”
“If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?”
“A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.”
“Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.”

Source : Peter Porter (1992). “The chair of Babel”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!”
“The virtue of books is to be readable.”

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