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.
Leslie Fiedler Quotes
Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.
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Leslie Fiedler (48)
Birth: | 8th March, 1917 |
Death: | 29th January, 2003 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Critic |
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