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"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"
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"Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious."
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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."
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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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."
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"The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism."
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"Country music is the poetry of the American spirit."
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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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"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."
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"Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you."
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"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
Politics
"One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves."
Road
"There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all."
Being
"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."
Fact
"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."
Ambition
"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."
Time
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."
Time
"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."
Books
"The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so."
Humor
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
Books
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