Century American Individualist

Famous quotes containing the words century and/or american:

    “At first,
    our bodies were as one.
    Then
    you were unloving,
    but I still played the wretched favorite.
    Now
    you’re the master
    and we’re the wife.
    What’s next?
    This is the fruit I reap
    from my diamond-hard life.”
    —Amaru (c. seventh century A.D.)

    “The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.”
    —James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)