Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from An American Dream.
Society and Class Quotes
Forgive me. I thought the road to President might begin at the entrance to her Irish heart. (1.2)
Mortality Quotes
I looked down the abyss on the first night I killed: four men, four very separate Germans, dead under a full moon. (1.3)
The Supernatural Quotes
I did not throw the grenades on that night on the hill under the moon, it threw them, and it did a near-perfect job. (1.7)
Lies and Deceit Quotes
I could go into more detail about the […] steps which left me a young Congressman […] but that would merely describe the adventures of the part which I as a young actor was playing. (1.10)
Violence Quotes
Murder, after all, has exhilaration within it […] from possessing such strength. Besides, murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unisexual. (1.12)
Gender Quotes
It was a losing war, and I wanted to withdraw, count my dead, and look for love in another land, but she was a great b****, Deborah, a lioness of the species. (1.14)
Dissatisfaction Quotes
A familiar misery was on me. I was separated from Deborah as much as a week or two at a time, but there would come a moment […] when it was impossible not to call her.
Lust Quotes
That was love with Deborah and it was separate from making love to Deborah; no doubt she classified the two as Grace and Lust. (1.9)