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The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

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I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

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Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

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Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I check every part of it to see whether every scene is necessary. You imagine yourself watching the movie, to see whether or not you're losing the through-line of the story. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. ↗

— George Santayana

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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ↗

— George Santayana

#controlled #dreadful #geography #indignity #me

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. ↗

— George Santayana

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The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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