Quotes About Culture

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells.

Nobody, and I mean Nobody... puts ketchup on a hot dog.

Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

have been at a great feast of languages," says Moth, "and stolen the scraps.")

It has to be remembered that the typical Polish writer was Bruno Schulz.

But for that to be remembered, Bruno Schulz has to be remembered,

It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

Nationalism is the culture of the uncultivated, and they are legion. —MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, CONTRO VIENTO Y MAREA, P. 439

a phrase among the refugees for how they felt about America: Dankbar aber ungülcklich (thankful but unhappy).

Latin America in the late twentieth century was a tragic laboratory for testing all the wrong ways to think about a national culture.

Cambridge will probably never get round to formally approving homosexuality, but the type of homosexual involved perhaps prefers a blind eye

Early in the twentieth century, E.E.Cummings was as hot against materialist society as only a poet living on a trust fund can be.

I find that any self-respecting artist must be, and in more than one sense of the term, an émigré. —WITOLD GOMBROWICZ, VARIA, VOL. 1, P. 203

Nationalism, as a state of mind, is all fervour and no judgement. National pride, however, is a different and better thing.

the American-affiliated students were incomparably better informed than the locals—incomparably more intelligent all round, to put it bluntly—but the one thing the Americans could not do to save their lives was recite the verse in front of them.

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.

la novela tiene que ser la fotografía que estereotipe los vicios y las virtudes de un pueblo,

She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together