“America… It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.”

— Thomas Wolfe, book Of Time and the River

Book 2, chapter 14, p. 155
Of Time and the River (1935)

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American writer 1900–1938

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Willa Cather (1873–1947) American writer and novelist

Source: Willa Cather in Europe (1956), Ch. 12 (6 September 1902) near Marseilles, France.

“In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.”

Alice Munro book Too Much Happiness

Source: "Too Much Happiness", in Too Much Happiness (2009)

“It was evident that the treatment program’s building was a place where miracles happen.”

Virgil Miller Newton (1938) American priest

Miller Newton in: Beth Polson and Miller Newton (1984). Not my Kid: A Parent's Guide to Kids and Drugs. Avon, NY, NY, pg 3.

“For some reason, the United States is the only country on Earth where accidents don't happen – it's always somebody's fault, and you can sue that somebody for neglect.”

Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer

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