3,162 Quotes About Culture





  • Author Fiona Wood
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    She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be understood.But what did the volume of words matter in any language when she couldn't even manage to ask the simplest questions? Will you tell me your story? Will you let me in to my own family? Isn't it my story, too?

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  • Author Poul Anderson
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    The fact is, man has never stayed by a single ideal. The mass enthusiasm when you were young gave way to cool, rationalistic classicism. Today that’s being drowned in turn by a kind of neoromanticism. God knows where that will lead. I probably won’t approve. Regardless, new generations grow up. We’ve no right to freeze them into our own mold. The universe is too wide.

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