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"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"
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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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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."
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"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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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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"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."
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"A Mediterranean city is really my culture."
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"Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better."
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"Culture clash is terrific drama."
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"We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'."
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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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"That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president."
Politics
"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."
Life
"Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith."
Business
"In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it."
Writing
"Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin."
Choice
"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."
Age
"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."
Books
"The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes."
Money
"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all."
Work
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