"Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris."

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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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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

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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."

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

"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."

"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

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

"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."

"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

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

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