Chapters 1-2
Love
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“It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.”
-Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“Love is the state in which man sees things most decidedly as they are not.”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.”
-Charles Bukowski
“People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of an ordinary woman.”
-Marcel Proust
“When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.”
- Gerald Brenan
“How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?”
-From Baby You’re a Rich Man, Paul McCartney and John Lennon
“In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.”
- Andy Warhol
“All’s fair in love and war”
- Francis Edward Smedley
“Love is nothing but sex misspelled.”
- Harlan Ellison
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H.L. Mencken
3-4
Money & Greed
“Me want cookie”
-Spoken by Cookie Monster
“It’s difficult to believe that people are starving this country because food isn’t available.”
-Ronald Reagan
“There are three faithful friends‑ an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“One pill makes you taller,
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall.”
-Grace Slick
“Money don’t buy everything that is true,
But what it can’t buy I can’t use,
Just give me money,
that is what I want.”
-John Lennon
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
- Oscar Wilde
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful.”
-Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Chapters7-9
Violence
“All’s fair in love and war”
-Francis Edward Smedley
“Down in the shadow of the penitentiary,
Out by the gas fires of the refinery;
I’m ten years burning down the road,
Nowhere to run, ain’t know where to go.” Mm
-Bruce Springsteen
“Violence is as American as cherry pie”
-Rap (Hubert Gerold) Brown
“Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.”
-Sylvia Plath
Poor man wanna be rich
Rich man wanna be king
King ain’t satisfied
Till he rules everything
-Bruce Springsteen
Happiness is a warm gun
John Lennon
5-6
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the
saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you
can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
-- Katherine Mansfield
To be left alone, and face to face with my
own crime, had been just retribution.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No adultery is bloodless.
-- Natalia Ginzburg
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for
himself.
-- Ed Howe
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and
it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
-- Joseph de Maistre
Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are
never impulsive.
-- George A. Knight
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas,
occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
-- Benjamin Rush
The more a man dreams, the less he believes.
-- H. L. Mencken
A thing is not necessarily true because a
man dies for it.
-- Oscar Wilde
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his
poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
n Ben Hecht
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by their character.Martin Luther King
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...”
J.G. Ballard
We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the true face of America; not narrow values that divide us, but the shared values that unite us: family, faith, hard work, opportunity and responsibility for all, so that every child, every adult, every parent, every worker in America has an equal shot at living up to their God-given potential. That is the American dream and the American value.”
John Kerry
I think it means a lot of ugly things. I think it means being absolutely certain the whole world wants to live the way you live, that the American bathroom is the answer to everybody's dream and all that kind of thing, American values. The American dream is a nightmare sometimes. There are things that happen in this country that are just unbelievable. If the American dream is Columbine High School, you know, I don't know what the American dream is.
Shelby Foote
Christine Anderson
Part of the American
dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die
for their country are fit to live.
Douglas Macarthur
Former Poet Laureate of the United States