"This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners."

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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

— Flannery O'Connor