You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries... - Melting Pot, The.
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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars! - Caliban in the Coal Mines.
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A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
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Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.
