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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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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."
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"Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm."
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"We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do."
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"A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy."
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"I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks."
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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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"Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute."
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"Alimony is the curse of the writing class."
Finance
"There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be."
Sex
"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."
Art
"Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment."
Sentimentality
"The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you."
Man
"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."
Fact
"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen."
Influence
"Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts."
Cultural
"I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind."
Ability
"When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write."
Reading
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