...American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? (Gore Vidal)

...American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

Related topics

joke lay seen someone Hemingway

Related quotes

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.

Joseph Hall

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

Benjamin Tucker

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

John F. Kennedy

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

Jacques Delors

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Saul Bellow