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"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
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"Italy is a divided country without a center."
Nation
"There's always some kind of hidden logic."
Logic
"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."
Choice
"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."
Books
"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."
Time
"I translated Beatles songs for my English class."
Language
"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."
Design
"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
Cultural
"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."
Books
"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."
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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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"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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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
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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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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."
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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
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"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."
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"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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