Famous quotes containing the words americans and/or consumed:
“Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)
“You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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