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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 Stanley Crouch
"As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that."
"Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy."
"Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers."
"I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together."
"The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war."
"The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about."
"Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written."
"Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately."
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