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“Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.”

People America Space Five Healthy Perfection Twenties Miles Landscape Divinity Squares Cult Ruined Alaska Twenty Five Montana

Author:Ellen Meloy

“It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.”

Ends America Artist Effort Adventure Perfection Thirds Strive China Mediums Over It Gaps Leap Imperfect Unfinished Columbus Superhuman Predetermined

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“In America, even your menus have the gift of language.... The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned to perfection and served in a creamy nest of mashed farm potatoes and strictly fresh garden vegetables. Of course, what you get is cole slaw and a slab of meat, but that doesn't matter because the menu has already started your juices going. Oh, those menus. In America, they are poetry.”

Matter America Courses Language Rich Food Garden Perfection Cooking Meat Culinary Farms Vegetables Chef Potatoes Juice Nests Menus Vienna Hearty Slabs

Author:Laurie Lee

“I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.”

Thinking World America Perfection Experience Mexico Outside World New Mexico

Book:Studies in Classic American Literature

Source: Studies in Classic American Literature

“There are two kinds of theatre, good and bad. Much as I should like to see theatre in America, I would rather have no theatre than bad theatre. What we must strive for is perfection and come as close to it as is humanly possible.”

Should Kind Two America Perfection Strive Theatre Good And Bad

Author:Margo Jones

“By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And, therefore, this creates within them an attitude that is different from the attitude of the white that you meet here in America, and it was in Mecca that I realized that white is actually an attitude more so than it's a color.”

Humans Different America Human Beings White Attitude Color Honor Perfection I Realized Whiteness Mecca Yardsticks

Author:Malcolm X

“Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers”

America Husband Perfection England Rate Divorce American Woman Butlers Divorce Rates

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.”

Source: Royalty and Republicanism in Italy: Or, Notes and Documents Relating to the Lombard Insurrection, and to the Royal War of 1848