Culture Quotes

"There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign" "I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it." "Our culture has become increasingly narcissistic." "Artists are here to disturb the peace" "Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother’s womb" "Music makes people come together" "Civilization is, among other things, the process by which animals are turned into men." "It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet." "Libraries have always seemed to me like the richest places in the world" "A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes" "The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes" "The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same." "I cannot imagine the universe without books" "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need" "By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show"