No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
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The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.
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In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
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