A great quote on the American capacity for visioning, in a?review?of the equally great?Matthew?McConaughey?film, “Mud.” The great American literary critic Leslie Fiedler said: “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 …
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