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Don't you see that the Americans need the anti-American? While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.

I pitied the French for their naïveté in believing they had to visit a country in order to exploit it.

So this is the infamous squid scene. Given the actual magnitude of the incident, I would have expected to hear about the scene near the very beginning of 'East of Eden', wherein the first patriarch stalked a black girl in the effort to 'cut off her ears and her nose with his pocketknife', as often as I did this one. What could be the difference, I wonder.

He had hung an elaborate Oriental rug on his wall, in lieu, I suppose, of an actual Oriental.

Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell.

And now for a classic in the more contemporary sense of the word.