Book: One-Storey America

“Here, here, sisters,” Adams said, “you are in the real America.

The more extensive the advertising, the more trivial the subject for which it is intended. Only selling some nonsense can pay for this crazy advertising.

It is enough for a person to lose his job, and the next day he begins to clearly understand that he is not the owner, but the most ordinary slave like a Negro, only white.

New York is a frightening city. Millions of people are bravely fighting for their lives here. There's too much money in this city. Too much for some and very little for others. And it casts a tragic light on everything that's happening in New York.

It is very interesting when the heart is filled with pride and the wallet is emptied proportionally.

On the street fell a little inaudible rain. But even if there was a thunderstorm with thunder and lightning, then it would not be heard. New York itself thunders and gleams worse than any storm. It is a painful city. He makes all the time to look at yourself. This city hurts my eyes. But don't look at it.

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Americans by their nature a chewing people. They chew gum, candy, the ends of cigars, their jaws constantly moving, knock, clap.

I'm to the point full of impressions that I'm afraid to sneeze - as if something has popped up.

What could be more tempting lights of another city...

The average American, regardless of his external activity, in fact, nature is very passive. He has to submit all as ready as spoiled husband. Tell him which drink is better and he will drink it. Tell him which political party is more favorable, and he will vote for it. Tell him what God is "real" and he will believe in him. Just don't do one - don't force it to think in off-duty hours. He does not love, and that he was not accustomed.

What can we say about America, which simultaneously horrifies, delights, arouses pity and gives examples worthy of emulation, the country is rich, poor, talented and untalented?
We can honestly say, hand on heart: this country is interesting to observe, but to live in it alone.

America is rich. And not just rich. It is rich in phenomenal. It has everything - oil, grain, coal, gold, cotton - everything that can lie beneath the ground and grow on earth. She has people are excellent workers, capable, tidy, Executive, honest and hardworking. To its enrichment America was fast. The country is like a man making a rapid career, who at first sells suspenders from the tray on the East side, then opens the clothing store and moved to Brooklyn. Then opens a General store, begins to play the stock market and moved to the Bronx. And, finally, buys a railroad, hundreds of steamships, two movie factories, builds a skyscraper, opens a Bank, joins a Golf club and moved to Park Avenue. He's a billionaire. All his life he strove for that goal. He traded than have, and as necessary. He ruined people speculated, from morning to evening sitting on the exchange, he worked sixteen hours a day, he made money. Thinking about the money he was awake. With this thought in mind he fell asleep. And now he is monstrously wealthy. Now he can relax. He has villas by the ocean, he has yachts and castles. But he falls ill with an incurable disease. He is dying, and no billions can't save him. The stimulus of American life has always been money.

It so happened that even indirect fighters for the happiness of humanity - scientists, inventors, builders in America is not popular. They are with their works, inventions, and wonderful constructions, remain in the shadows, all the glory goes to boxers, bandits and movie stars.