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Letter "A" » America and Americans
«New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite-the taxi driver.»
Author: Alan Brien
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
driver, journalistic, surliest, surly, taxi, taxis, Taxi Driver, The Western, waiters, Western
«Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.»
Author: Allen Ginsberg
| About:
America and Americans,
Drugs
| Keywords:
catch cold, cocaine, knees, nose, saves, sniff, sniffed, sniffing, sniffs, snows
«Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence.»
Author: Franklin P. Jones
(Businessman)
| About:
America and Americans,
Home
| Keywords:
American, eight, generate, generating, homes, My TV, ninety, Ninety eight, percent, sets, Sex and, tv set, TV sets, violence
«North Carolina is the place you fly over on the way to Florida. Ohio is the flat place between Hoboken and Malibu.»
Author: John Fleischman
| About:
America and Americans,
Cities
| Keywords:
Carolina, flat, Hoboken, in the north, North, North A, North by, North Carolina, Ohio, on the way, to the north
«Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.»
Author: Mary Ellen Kelly
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
break up, drive off, horns, jammed, jams, Natives, Native American, traffic, traffic jam, Traffic jams
«New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.»
«New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.»
Author: William E. Geist
| About:
America and Americans,
Conversation
| Keywords:
checking, City of New York, conversations, newspaper, overhear, overheard, overhears, restaurant, subway, subway train
«New York, the nation's thyroid gland.»
Author: Christopher Morley
| About:
America and Americans,
New York
| Keywords:
gland, glands, New York, The Nation, thyroid, thyroid gland, York
«New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.»
Author: David Letterman
(Comedian, Host)
| About:
America and Americans,
Cities,
New York
| Keywords:
City of New York, move around, moving around, sudden
«New York is a sucked orange.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
sucked
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