Quotes About Culture

Ocurre que el escritor latinoamericano había olvidado algo que, en cambio, nuestros clásicos, como el Inca Garcilaso o Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, jamás pusieron en duda: que era parte constitutiva, por derecho de lengua y de historia, de la cultura occidental.

Desde luego que tiene sentido hacer literatura, porque la literatura puede ser, además de algo que produce placer, que estimula la imaginación, que enriquece la sensibilidad, puede ser una manera de hacer tomar conciencia de la problemática social al público lector y al gran público en general».

La cultura puede ser experimento y reflexión, pensamiento y sueño, pasión y poesía y una revisión crítica constante y profunda de todas las certidumbres, convicciones, teorías y creencias. Pero ella no puede apartarse de la vida real, de la vida verdadera, de la vida vivida, que no es nunca la de los lugares comunes, la del artificio, el sofisma y el juego, sin riesgo

Robbe-Grillet dice: «No, la novela no tiene que educar políticamente a nadie; la novela es fundamentalmente un arte».

qué te ha servido este pequeño refugio de libros, grabados, discos, todas estas cosas bellas, refinadas, sutiles, inteligentes, coleccionadas con tanto afán creyendo que en este minúsculo espacio de civilización estarías defendido contra la incultura, la frivolidad, la estupidez y el vacío?».

Por otra parte, el Perú me ha parecido siempre un país de gentes tristes

Bagaimana bisa penulis-penulis ini menjadikan sastra sebagai takdir, sebagai militansi, di tengah mayoritas orang yang tidak bisa membaca atau tidak mampu membeli buku, atau minoritas yang bisa, tetapi tidak suka membaca?

Pese a ello, la mentalidad tribal y la tentación colectivista de desaparecer al individuo dentro de una colectividad supuestamente homogénea e idéntica están lejos de haber sido superadas. Ellas retornan, de manera cíclica, como amenazas constantes a nuestra modernización y a que América Latina asuma, con todas sus consecuencias, la cultura de la libertad.

Mi país, nuestros países, son, en un sentido profundo, más ficciones que realidades.

The audience settled back, prepared to be culturally bored and to enjoy it, for everyone knew that culture, like medicine, must be really nasty or it was not culture.

In the absence of role models for the new feminine in our culture, the Goddess speaks through dreams and creative imagination, giving guidance to those who chose to listen.

America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer blondes, but the great heights to which she has propelled ice cream.

The store was empty, without a single customer or employee. It appeared in the Internet age, pianos, like physical books, were fast becoming culturally extinct. They'd probably stay that way unless Apple invented the iPiano, which fit inside your pocket and could be mastered via text message. With the iPiano, anyone can be an iMozart. Then, you could compose your own iRequiem for your own iFuneral attended by millions of your iFriends who iLoved you.

She [Whitley] was the only girl I knew who surveyed everyone like a leather-clad Dior model and rattled off Latin like it was her native language.

Everyone associated with the slow printed word is fast becoming the Great Crested Newt of the culture. First it was the poets, the playwrights, then the novelists. Veteran newspapermen are next

It appeared in the Internet age, pianos, like physical books, were fast becoming culturally extinct. They'd probably stay that way unless Apple invented the iPiano, which fit inside your pocket and could be mastered via text message. With the iPiano, anyone can be an iMozart. Then, you could compose your own iRequiem for your own iFuneral attended by millions of your iFriends who iLoved you.

It appeared in the Internet age, pianos, like physical books, were fast becoming culturally extinct. They'd probably stay that way unless Apple invented the iPiano, which fit inside your pocket and could be mastered via text message. With the iPiano, anyone can be an iMozart. Then, you could compose your own iRequiem for your own iFuneral attended by millions of your iFriends who iLoved you.

The current Pandora's box of revelations about sexual crimes committed within the walls of so many of America's families reveals the nuclear family to be cruelly, aptly named. Patriarchy, sexism, and the culture of capitalism have created a family that too often is no more than a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.

It's not disgusting, that little skin that hangs? The foreskin? No, it's okay. I think that generally speaking , a dick isn't really photogenic. I quite agree.

The harder I tried to assimilate, the more I had the feeling that I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins, that I was playing a game by somebody else's rules.

It's wonderful to have international friends.

500 turmans for the live and virginity of an innocent girl.

Et puis j'étais contrariée par tous ces actes sexuels publics. Que voulez-vous, je venais d'un pays traditionnaliste.

And why is it the women who have to be virgins? Why suffer torment to satisfy an asshole? Because the man who demands virginity from a women is nothing but an asshole! Why don't we behave as Westerners do!? For them, since the problem of sex is resolved, they can move on to other things! This is the reason they progress!!!