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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
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"A Mediterranean city is really my culture."
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"Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better."
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"We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'."
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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."
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"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
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"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
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"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."
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"Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not."
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"The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism."
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"What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene."
People
"Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up."
People
"To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction."
Life
"Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it."
Time
"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage."
Work
"All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it."
Family
"It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism."
Cultural
"And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man."
Experience
"Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev."
Thought
"I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity."
People
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