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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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«North Carolina is the place you fly over on the way to Florida. Ohio is the flat place between Hoboken and Malibu.»
«Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up 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.»
«New York, the nation's thyroid gland.»
«New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.»
«New York is a sucked orange.»