"America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that began to sweep through Europe in the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And when people got here, very often they succeeded."

-- Mitch Horowitz

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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

Source : A Little Book in C Major ch. 2 (1916)
“Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”

Source : Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books
“democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.”

Source : ANNE STEVENSON “A RELATIVE STRANGER\”
“I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”
“Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.”
“Well you are a piece of work aren't you?”
“You can shoot and edit a movie from your iPhone and upload it to YouTube. Of course, what's not universal is talent. Are you making anything that anyone really should see?”
“Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.”

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