Quotes by Fiedler, Leslie

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its l >>

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is prec >>

Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least >>

Quotations about America

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The re >>

America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax. >>

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. >>

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.

Fiedler, Leslie