People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
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In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly, that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the 1st place the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.Alistair Cooke
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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.
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Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
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A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.
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I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
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