Quotes About Culture

I felt like I was seeing my life over again when I first arrived in Ghana. I thought, 'This is part of me.' I knew what it was like to be poor and hungry.

I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.

Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression

Quando alguém pergunta para que serve a filosofia. Fazer enfim do pensamento algo agressivo, ativo e afirmativo. Fazer homens livres, isto é, homens que não confundam os fins da cultura com o proveito do Estado, da moral ou da religião (...).

Trascendencia, enfermedad propiamente europea.

Marxism and Freudianism are the two fundamental bureaucracies. Marx and Freud may be the dawn of our culture, but with Nietzsche, something altogether different occurs: the dawn of a counterculture.

La littérature est une santé.

If you own a bar on your own, you're a player; if you own it with your beloved twin sister, you're– Irish.

The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform friends that, like, 'rain sucks!' But there's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.

If you own a bar on your own, you're a player; if you own it with your beloved twin sister, you're—" "Irish." "Go on.

midwesterners love two liters of soda, always two liters, and you pour them into big red plastic Solo cups, always).

This place is so white, it's disturbing," said Amy, who, back in the melting pot of Manhattan, counted a single African-American among her friends. I accused her of craving ethnic window dressing, minorities as backdrops. It did not go well.)

A los norteamericanos les chifla ver cómo se disculpan los pecadores.

in the late '90s, the last gasp of the glory days, although no one knew it then. New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was still some exotic pet kept in the corner of the publishing world—throw some kibble at it, watch it dance on its little leash, oh quite cute, it definitely won't kill us in the night.

It was certainly easy making conversation with this woman. You didn't even have to know the native tongue.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

Little girls are twice as precious and innocent as little boys. I do not know a culture that does not make them that way.

It's a shame that money has to enter into everything.

The direction in which the culture of an age develops is, humanly speaking, chosen by a few exceptionally intelligent men. The popular authors then pick up some of the main ideas, usually distorting and diluting them considerably, and finally fifty years or a century later the general viewpoint has seeped down to the whole populace.

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

But then Americans have always lived entirely in the present, and this generation is no different from mine except that now there is more of a past for them to ignore.

The American passion for categorizing has now managed to create two non-existent categories—gay and straight.