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On Mediation. There are no failed revolutions, only lawless conspiracies. E.L. Doctorow. American Culture: Some “True” Myths. I’m not English. I’m American. We see all things as possible. We don’t allow anyone to be better than ourselves.” Norman Mailer.
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On Mediation • There are no failed revolutions, only lawless conspiracies. • E.L. Doctorow
I’m not English. I’m American. We see all things as possible. We don’t allow anyone to be better than ourselves.” Norman Mailer
An American? I looked up. “How do I know?” • “Wearing a hat,” he said. “Carrying her own boxes.” • “That doesn’t mean she’s an American.” • “Riding the night bus,” he smiled. “American” • Paul Theroux, The Consul’s File
For me there was only one place to go if I couldn’t live in my own country: America. It is a country of immigrants. There is such tolerance for the foreign and unfamiliar. America continues to amaze me. • Miloš Forman
In a foreign land two Americans are friends at once for the simple reason that they are Americans. There is no prejudice to hold them back and their common fatherland draws them together. For two Englishmen the same blood is not enough; they must also have the same rank to bring them together. • Alexis De Tocqueville
Americans seemed not to care how much was understood by strangers. It was almost as if they enjoyed being transparent. • Eric Ambler, Passage of Arms
The people who are not pleased with America must be those whose sympathies are fossilized or whose eyes have no power of observation. Such delightful and entertaining schemes for hoodwinking nature you never nature you never saw, such ingenuities for beating the terrible forces of the seasons, such daring inventions and heroic tricks of luxury. The people are bluff and good-natured and as sharp as needles to detect and defy pretension. • Edmund Gosse
They had too much energy, even for Americans. • John Le Carre
It’s not that Americans are innocents abroad or at home. It’s just that they never quite know who they are or where they are at… • Alexander Cockburn
I have always admired artlessness in others and the Americans are fashioning a philosophy out of it. • Peter Ackroyd
Civility cannot be purchased from Americans on any terms; they seem to think it is incompatible with freedom. • Isaac Weld
My book has been a great success in the United States which is upsetting because I thought it in good taste before and now I know it cannot be. • Evelyn Waugh