Culture Is A Way Of

Only The Old Are Innocent. That Is What The Victorians Understood, And The Christians. Original Sin Is A Property Of The Young. The Old Grow Beyond Corruption Very Quickly.

The Better Class Of Briton Likes To Send His Children Away To School Until They're Old And Intelligent Enough To Come Home Again. Then They're Too Old And Intelligent To Want To.

My Experience Of Ships Is That On Them One Makes An Interesting Discovery About The World. One Finds One Can Do Without It Completely.

But You Are Involved In The World, And Your Actions Have Consequences For Other People, And If You Don't Recognize That, Then That's The Supreme Kind Of Cruelty. Everyone Shares Someone Else's Fate To Some Extent.

Culture Is A Way Of Coping With The World By Defining It In Detail.