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After so many years, I feel more American than anything else, but I'm also Romanian and whatever other oddities of temperament I picked up elsewhere, in Transylvania or France, for instance. These days, everybody is both an exile and a resident - they don't call it the global village for nothing.
~ Andrei Codrescu
After
Also
American
Anything
Anything Else
Both
Call
Days
Else
Elsewhere
Everybody
Exile
Feel
France
Global
Global Village
I Feel
Instance
Many
More
Nothing
Other
Picked
Resident
So Many Years
Temperament
Than
Up
Village
Whatever
Years
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Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.
~ Andrei Codrescu
Accustomed
American
Countries
Creating
Least
Other
Other Countries
Our
Own
Receiving
Refugees
Welcoming
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Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.
~ Andrei Codrescu
Circumstances
Even
Express
Greatest
Immediate
Larger
Poets
Than
Tragedy
Way
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Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.
~ Andrei Codrescu
Artists
Birthday
Birthday Party
Friend
Get
Kid
Lucky
Most
Paid
Party
Persuade
Show
Something
Them
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My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States.
~ Andrei Codrescu
Also
Between
Bought
Bundle
Came
Currency
Deal
Ethnic
Freedom
Germans
Germany
Going
Hard
He
Head
I Came
Instead
Israel
Jews
Made
Mother
Part
Romania
Sold
States
United
United States
Were
West
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New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.
~ Andrei Codrescu
Because
Corrupt
Me
New
New Orleans
Orleans
Politically
Reminds
Romania
Very
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Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.
~ Andrei Codrescu
Artists
Factory
Free
Idea
Money
Now
Real
Society
Use
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Romanians are culturally European, very close to the French. Socially, they are now building a society that is emotionally closer to the Balkans, Turkey and Greece.
~ Andrei Codrescu
Balkans
Building
Close
Closer
Emotionally
European
French
Greece
Now
Socially
Society
Turkey
Very
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Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.
~ Andrei Codrescu
Beautiful
Complex
Genuinely
Language
Like
Love
Mystical
Particular
Poetry
Poets
Souls
Vivid
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There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won't get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers.
~ Andrei Codrescu
Art
Artist
Artists
Being
Conceive
Conceptual
Days
Field
Get
Internet
Known
Levels
Making
Making Money
Money
Only
Out
Paid
Problem
Serious
Slight
Species
Takes
Who
Would
You
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20 December, 1946
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