"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"

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"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"

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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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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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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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"Culture clash is terrific drama."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

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"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."

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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

Johan Huizinga, Dutch Historian

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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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"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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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

Alan Dundes, American Educator

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"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."

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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

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"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

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"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."

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"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days."

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"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

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

"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

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

"Culture clash is terrific drama."

"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."

"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

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

"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."

"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."

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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

"There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all."

"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."

"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days."

"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

"The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible."

"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note."

"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."

"Never have children, only grandchildren."