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All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.

The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.

No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the...

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. — Nick Hornby The Polysyllabic...

The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.

Also she went in for culture, which gave her a certain moral authority. It wouldn't now; but people believed, then, that culture could make you better - a better person. They believed it could uplift...

New York's perennial attraction was shopping.

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and...

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

I had also developed my own culture. Work. Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion and had moved everything else to the side.

My voice thick with frustration, I declared that if men and women could only meet each other under normal circumstances, that delusions of instant love would be more infrequent. While I do believe...

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What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

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