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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks. — Pat Conroy

The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life. — James Pike

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life. — John Lahr

You can't spell American without "I can. — A.D. Aliwat

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life — Joe Hill

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life. — Alan Dershowitz

As long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel would always be assured a bottomless pool of new customers. — Thomas Pynchon

There is a lack of agency here - a feeling that you have little control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself. — J.D. Vance

This fantasy about the disposability of black life is a constant in American history. — Teju Cole

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential. — Ellsworth Huntington

The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238 — Leslie Bratspis

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance. — Melanie Fiona

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one. — Reid Hoffman

maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. I — Jon Ronson

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution. — Herbert Hoover

The lesson of an American life like my father's ... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112). — Saul Bellow

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story. — Cristina Saralegui

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. — Jeff Sharlet

All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth. — Chief Seattle

Each player on this team whether he shines in the spotlight or eats dirt on the line, must be an All-American. — Omar N. Bradley

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life. — Martin Amis

I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American. — Alice Eve

When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life. — Paul Shaffer

There are many things in my life I want to forget. But this I intend to remember. — Brynn Kelly

Public life in this country is too damn dominated by people who'd read more if only their lips didn't get so tired. — Markham Shaw Pyle

I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count! — Zoe Kazan

This is my love line ... It says an incredibly sexy, but totally infuriating redheaded woman with barge into my life and drive me insane. — Denise Grover Swank

There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government. — Allen West

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is. — Booker T. Washington

Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it? — Joe Cocker

Peace of mind is the meaning of life" -Talisa Santiago (Spirit Seeker) — Jamie-Leigh Haden

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century. — Henry R. Luce

The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money. — Penelope Trunk

If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country. — Baltasar Kormakur

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life. — Bill Cosby

Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life. — Hanya Yanagihara

Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts. — Anasazi Foundation

Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:7 NLT — Eddie Johnson

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be. — Eric Alterman

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament. — Christopher Lasch

In my fifty years of public life, I have never seen a man [Ronald Reagan] more popular with the American people — Tip O'Neill

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life ... — Paula Gunn Allen

LIFE IS NEVER OVER. — Amy King

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts. — George W. S. Trow

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture
and American culture has triumphed. — Alan Wolfe

We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder. — Mitch Daniels

The ability to see the future does not require sight just Vision and Passion to embrace Change for a better American future.-12-05-2013 — Michael E. McKinzy Sr.

Our whole American way of life is a great war of ideas, and librarians
are the arms dealers selling weapons to both sides — James Quinn

I understood ... that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978. — Adam Davidson

By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life. — John Ross

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it. — Paullina Simons