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Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy  (Uro Quotes) I am fighting when I'm sleeping. In my dreams, I must slay the dragon of European heterosexual male society, then I wake up in the morning and be an activist  (Uro Quotes) And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: The West  (Uro Quotes) The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato  (Uro Quotes) Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich  (Uro Quotes) England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases  (Uro Quotes) My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex  (Uro Quotes) You can take the girl out of the library, but you can't take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl  (Uro Quotes) At any time of the day, corduroy is a highly stressful fabric. Rent collectors wear it. Tax collectors, too. History teachers add leather elbow patches  (Uro Quotes) If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie  (Uro Quotes) The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves  (Uro Quotes) Now a conjuror is I think a very pleasant fellow to have among us, if we know that he is a conjuror; - but a conjuror who is believed to do his tricks without sleight of hand is a dangerous man  (Uro Quotes) F neuroses were swimming pools one might, like Cheever's swimmer, steer a course from my house to the city limits and never touch dry land  (Uro Quotes) Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power  (Uro Quotes) We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution  (Uro Quotes) If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days  (Uro Quotes) Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces  (Uro Quotes) Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image  (Uro Quotes) Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people  (Uro Quotes) Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces  (Uro Quotes) I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday  (Uro Quotes) Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know  (Uro Quotes) She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence  (Uro Quotes) For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, and yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; at whose approach ghosts, wandering here and there, troop home to churchyards  (Uro Quotes) France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster  (Uro Quotes) Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted  (Uro Quotes) So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place  (Uro Quotes) I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism  (Uro Quotes) People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds  (Uro Quotes) But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever  (Uro Quotes)
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