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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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"America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing."
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"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."
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"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."
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"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."
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"I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts."
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"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."
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"Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels."
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"Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church."
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"Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh."
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"America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel."
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