text: what is a quote bout the american dream which states it as being impossible or a nightmare? american nightmare is what i am looking for. any help would be appreciated florence king: “people are so busy dreaming the american dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. consequently we are living in the age of human error.”  j.g. ballard: “the american dream has run out of gas. the car has stopped. it no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. no more. it's over. it supplies the world with its nightmares now: the kennedy assassination, watergate, vietnam...”  j.j. greene “there is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the american dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare.”