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5. “I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all – Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Regional Identity, Adaptation, Cultural Differences, Self-reflection, American Culture
6. “There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.” F. Scott Fitzgerald Education, History, American Culture, Progress, Tradition
15. “America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.” Orson Scott Card Intellectual Criticism, Conformity, Hypocrisy, Close Mindedness, Social Commentary, American Culture
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5. “I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all – Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald Regional Identity, Adaptation, Cultural Differences, Self-reflection, American Culture
6. “There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald Education, History, American Culture, Progress, Tradition
15. “America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.”
Orson Scott Card Intellectual Criticism, Conformity, Hypocrisy, Close Mindedness, Social Commentary, American Culture
