Deny Quote by Camille Paglia

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

— Thomas Carlyle

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

— Camille Paglia

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

— Patrick deWitt

“Westerns have often been considered the ugly stepchild of genre writing...”

— Johnny D. Boggs

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight…

— Alain de Botton

The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.

— Hamid-Reza Assefi

In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.

— Frederick Lenz

Typically, in Westerns, people who are in a Western feel like they're in a Western. It's almost like they know they do all these…

— Ti West

We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as…

— Kevin Costner

I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to…

— Leonid Feodorov

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

— Gore Verbinski