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"In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques."
"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"
"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."
"American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did."
"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."
"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
Explore more quotes by Malcolm Bradbury
"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely."
"Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly."
"If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions."
"English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did."
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