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After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

Edward Hopper
Character, Trying, Inheritance
"Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.
After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.