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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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"Culture clash is terrific drama."
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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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"We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture."
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"Culture clash is terrific drama."
Cultural
"The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying."
Writing
"The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century."
Writing
"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."
Chance
"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."
War
"When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'"
Character
"We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary."
Now
"I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back."
People
"I enjoy learning technical details."
Learning
"In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation."
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