"Culture clash is terrific drama."

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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

Edward Abbey, American Author

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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."

Thomas Frank, American Author

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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

Johan Huizinga, Dutch Historian

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

Alan Dundes, American Educator

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"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."

James S. Coleman, American Sociologist

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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"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

"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

"World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years."

Love

"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."

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"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."

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"For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words."

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"Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers."

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"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

"Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative."

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