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" I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum. "

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" A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age. "

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" It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite. "