"The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected."

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"The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected."

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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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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

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