"I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do."

-- John Podhoretz

#People Quotes #Culture Quotes #Feels Quotes

“The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.”
“I don't like people who speak French in public places. This includes the French.”
“The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.”
“I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.”
“I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.”
“Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty, even a majestic countenance, but when it has "coupled hell" and become crime, it grows increasingly foul and sordid. We love and admire Hamlet so much at the beginning that we tend to forget that he is as hot-blooded as the earlier Macbeth when he kills Polonius and the King, cold-blooded as the later Macbeth or Iago when he sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to death.”
“I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back; I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.”
“I don't believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed through no fault of their own.”

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