The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.
Source: I Came and Here I Am, in Cosmopolitan (NY), Feb 1936.
-- Gertrude Stein, (Feb 3 1874-1946), US author; She organized a writer's salon in Paris for post- WW I American expatriates known as the Lost Generation.