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When you travel you realize how small you are. You need to be humble. You can't be a big, brash American. You think you have problems. You leave the States and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you. They have nothing to eat, they have no water, they have no shelter, they have a terrible government. So you realize we complain about the government, we complain about food, whatever it is, and go somewhere else and you think, "Now I realize," you say, "Why people want to come to America. "

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Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

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In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

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