The mythical America…that marvellous, heroic, sentimental land-was an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer’s leap over the rude facts at your feet.
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Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
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