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“Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.”

Mean Culture Process Forget Great Men

Author:Albert J. Nock

“Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.”

Culture Process Forget Diligent Pedants Pedantry

Author:Albert J. Nock

“If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.”

Ifs Writing Book Might Romance Culture Names Forget Lucky Paper Pops Lists Ignorant Spells Topics Lit Fascination Pop Culture Chicks New Yorkers

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.”

People Ifs Looks Kind Art Stills Culture Forget Successful Fronts Fields Art Is Standing Contemporary Sane Engaging

Author:Tino Sehgal

“We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and contact with nature. You can’t divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.”

Culture Natural Forget Depends Civilization Connections Divorce Contact Organisms Very Deep Deep Connections

Author:James Balog

“Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still radically pluralistic. Not only are there plenty of exceptionalists who take exception to the stereotyping of the mass culture but that very string of epithets comes from a series of books that have been recent best-sellers, symptoms of a popular, living tradition of dissent from things as they are.”

“Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.”

People Country Culture Forget Race Speech Pot Now And Then Freedom Of Speech Melting Melting Pot

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history.”

Culture Individual Nations Forget Consciousness History Forgotten Denial Phenomenon

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.”

People Ifs Said I Can Culture Forget Invention Hey Mail Telephones Service Culture

Author:Thomas Friedman

“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.”

Ifs Years Done Culture Forget Subjects Particular Involved Ten Tasks Exception Admiration Zero Reserves Forget It Get Involved

Author:Gilles Deleuze

“It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.”

People Mean Culture Easy Forget Europe

Book:Journeys Between Wars

Source: Journeys Between Wars

“The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.”

“An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.”

Way Mind May Art Body Hands Care Culture Causes Forget Existence Worry Habit Normal Conscious Entertainment Daily Life Nerves Routine Popular Culture Body Art

Book:The Politics of the Unpolitical

Source: The Politics of the Unpolitical