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Quote by Saul Bellow
Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are gr

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries. – Saul Bellow

Other quotes by Saul Bellow

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. – Saul Bellow

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Oppression
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. – Saul Bellow

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Memory
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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war. – Saul Bellow

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War
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Other Quotes from
America
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. – Walter Lippman

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America

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed. – Margaret Mead

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America

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers – Jean Baudrillard

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America

…a “land of the free” that struggles under the incredible burden of limitless taxes and laws; the home of the “brave” who stay silent to keep their jobs and avoid scrutiny by the IRS or the police. – Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No.74

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America

Random Quotes

Grief is itself a medicine. – William Cowper, Charity

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Grief

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they aint so wicked as their neighbors. – Josh Billings

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thankful

Docs? Oh, you mean the stuff you wipe up coffee with? – Author Unknown

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Coffee

And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not? The answer would be Yes we can! – Artur Davis

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Health