"The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture."

Culture, Understanding, Art, Expression

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"Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music."

John Green, American Author

Culture, Music, Taste, Expression

"Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Culture, Language, Diplomacy, Communication

"Ram-fication of Ravan-ous thoughts is what Dussehra all about."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

Culture, Tradition, Reflection, Symbolism

"I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life."

Joyce Carol Oates, American Novelist

Culture, Memory, Childhood, Life

"Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Culture, Art, Soul, Reading, Self

"The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Culture, Snow, Language, Love

"We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Culture, Identity, Tradition, Humanity

"To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way."

Alexander McCall Smith, British Author

Culture, Language, Identity, Loss, Memory

"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Culture, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Culture, Fashion, Observation, Social, Time

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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

Ideas

"One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me but I always got up."

Motivation

"If we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil."

Ethics

"Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more."

Knowledge

"No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations."

Time

"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."

Literature

"Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance."

Education

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"Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music."

"Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely."

"Ram-fication of Ravan-ous thoughts is what Dussehra all about."

"Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury."

"The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."

"We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds."

"To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way."

"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."

"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."

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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

"Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning."

"What a man wants to do he generally can do if he wants to badly enough."

"You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it."

"One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me but I always got up."

"If we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil."

"Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more."

"No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations."

"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."

"Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance."