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"Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture."
"Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something."
"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"
"Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris."
"In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture."
"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."
Explore more quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem."
"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money."
"And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war."
"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."
"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."
"It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power."
"Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately."
"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."
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