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Quotation by Gertrude Stein
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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is
what Americans are and that is what always upsets the
foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly
how can they be so suspicious and they are so
suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just
are and that certainly has something to do with their
having tucked their capital, their capitals away.
what Americans are and that is what always upsets the
foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly
how can they be so suspicious and they are so
suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just
are and that certainly has something to do with their
having tucked their capital, their capitals away.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), U.S. Originally published in New York Herald Tribune (March 9, 1935). "The Capital and Capitals of the United States of America," in, How Writing is Written, Black Sparrow Press (1974).
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