"Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today."

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"Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today."

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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."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

Elizabeth George, American Author

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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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."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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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."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

Edward Abbey, American Author

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"I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American."

God

"These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it."

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"Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately."

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"We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers."

Money

"Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making."

Death

"Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back."

Time

"Southern California, where the American Dream came too true."

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"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money."

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"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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"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."

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