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title: "1 Culture Reads Quotes By Patrick McGuinness"
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> [“Kafka’s The Castle came to mind, a book I had not read but that fell into that category of literature that culture reads on your behalf and deposits somewhere inside you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-mcguinness/kafka-s-the-castle-came-to-mind-a-book-i-had-not-read-but-that-fell/)

[Patrick McGuinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-mcguinness/)

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## More by Patrick McGuinness

> [“Kafka’s The Castle came to mind, a book I had not read but that fell into that category of literature that culture reads on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-mcguinness/kafka-s-the-castle-came-to-mind-a-book-i-had-not-read-but-that-fell/)

[Patrick McGuinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-mcguinness/)

> [“In diplomacy there are two kinds of problems: small ones and large ones. The small ones will go away by themselves and the large…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-mcguinness/in-diplomacy-there-are-two-kinds-of-problems-small-ones-and-large/)

[Patrick McGuinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-mcguinness/)

> [“To be compromised you need to have a stake in things, you need to have something to lose and something to gain. You have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-mcguinness/to-be-compromised-you-need-to-have-a-stake-in-things-you-need-to-have/)

[Patrick McGuinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-mcguinness/)

> [“Leo had once joked about writing an allegorical sketch where Parody packed its bags, shut up shop and put a sign on the door…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-mcguinness/leo-had-once-joked-about-writing-an-allegorical-sketch-where-parody/)

[Patrick McGuinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-mcguinness/)

> [“Life in a police state magnifies the small mercies that it leaves alone until they become disproportionate to their significance; at the same time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-mcguinness/life-in-a-police-state-magnifies-the-small-mercies-that-it-leaves/)

[Patrick McGuinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-mcguinness/)

> [“He was a fundamentalist – a pragmatic one perhaps, but a fundamentalist nonetheless, for whom all the failures of the ideal were due to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-mcguinness/he-was-a-fundamentalist-a-pragmatic-one-perhaps-but-a-fundamentalist/)

[Patrick McGuinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-mcguinness/)

> [“The waiter came over to ask if all is delicious. As we have not yet ordered, it is certainly the perfect time to enquire.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-mcguinness/the-waiter-came-over-to-ask-if-all-is-delicious-as-we-have-not-yet/)

[Patrick McGuinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-mcguinness/)

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