"To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2190/">To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2453/">Fiedler, Leslie</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/america/">America</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24063/">Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2453/">Fiedler, Leslie</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/literary_criticism/">Literary Criticism</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24064/">The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2453/">Fiedler, Leslie</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/literary_criticism/">Literary Criticism</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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