...American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? (Gore Vidal)

...American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

Gore Vidal

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