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Irwin Edman

"The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves."

Irwin Edman, American Philosopher
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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

Ralph Ellison, American Author
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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

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"I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President
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"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."

Eldridge Cleaver, American Activist
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"Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends."

Kenneth Anger, American Author
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist
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"We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way."

Paul Wolfowitz, American Celebrity
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