"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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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

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

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

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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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"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."

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."

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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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"That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president."

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"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."

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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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"A good deed never goes unpunished."

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"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."

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"It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true."

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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

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"Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith."

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"On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died."

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"In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it."

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