Culture Quote by Thomas McGuane

“They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics.”

— Thomas McGuane

Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company,…

— Anna Godbersen

“This is not a "guilty pleasure" of mine, simply because I don't believe in "guilty" pleasures. Snobbery is just the public face of insecurity.”

— James Kakalios

“From the time she was a little biddy thing I always told her: Melinda, don’t talk to strangers. But she loved everyone. She was…

— Amanda Kyle Williams

“She dressed in bohemian clothes, penned novels, panted, and yearned to roam forgotten corners of the world. She was habitually defiant and fearless, and…

— Laura Hillenbrand

The idea for 'Lifestyles' began to take shape in my mind as I became more and more frustrated with the type of celebrity interviews…

— Robin Leach

“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,…

— David Foster Wallace

“content with small pleasures and yet never really satisfied!”

— Hermann Hesse

“They wanted a girl who knew what it was like to acquire things out of amusement rather than need. Who sympathized with those whose…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it…

— Dave Hutchinson

We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when Mom understood…

— Cynthia Heimel

“The planet was filling up with good-looking young worldlings built entirely of opposites, canceling themselves out and- speaking as a bloke- leaving nothing you'd…

— Chris Cleave