Lionel Shriver Quotes About Country
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In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go to hell; the idea of countries and the idea of sons triumph for eternity.
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Many, if not most, countries blithely expect their citizens to have carte blanche access to the U.S., "land of immigrants," as a veritable human right, but put up all manner of barriers to Americans who want to emigrate in the opposite direction.
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Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.
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In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.
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