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"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."
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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."
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"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."
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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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 came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."
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"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."
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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
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"A Mediterranean city is really my culture."
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"I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't."
Science
"Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil."
Balance
"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."
Beginning
"I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice."
Love
"One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane."
Writing
"Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go."
Writing
"I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens."
Family
"Easy does it, boys. I just need help standing, not flying."
Help
"What do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what I needed was a good answer."
Conflict
"It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us."
Psychology
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