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“it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.”

— Bruce Cumings

“The Americans are an extremely interesting people. They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their distinguishing characteristic...I assure you there is no nonsense…

— Oscar Wilde

“Every American is from somewhere else. Each is hated for what he brings that is different from the rest. We live in uneasy peace.…

— Scott Turow

“Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they’ll stumble on the right one.”

— Gore Vidal

“As becomes more obvious every day, good citizenship is highly unpopular.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.”

— Thornton Wilder

“The United States of America is one of the most studied but least understood nations in the contemporary world.”

— Robert Singh

“Americans have many admirable characteristics, but literary taste is rare among them.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“We are all equal. The unlike of choices is what distinguishes us from each other.”

— Amen Muffler

“The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.”

— James Baldwin

“America is still AmeriKKKa. rather we like it or not”

— Fee Scott

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie