Archibald MacLeish

The World Quotes

the world 10 the world
It’s a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you’ve got to set an example, when you’re not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don’t know what is appropriate anymore.
The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world – right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

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Houses Quotes

houses 10 houses
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
I lived in Georgetown in the late ’70s about four houses down from the steps.
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

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Football Quotes

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I’d heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.
Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don’t go to games.

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London Quotes


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London is a modern Babylon.
London is the clearing-house of the world.
London is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin Disraeli

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City Quotes


city 10 City
Rather than hearing from the city council president, you’d hear from sources all across the country.
Jack Kelley
I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
A. J. Liebling

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American Quotes


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I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
Anita Loos
I should think just about every young writer – which I was at the time – would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.

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Conventional wisdom

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
I’m not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

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