Adaptation Quote by Wallace Stegner

Someone might say about a person, "Oh, they are a 'Westerner." But who are Westerners? Greek, Bulgarian, German, English, Scandinavian, Spanish, American, Latin. All…

— Burhan Sonmez

The West is not in the West. It is a project, not a place.

— Edouard Glissant

But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego is the…

— Rajneesh

Following the West is not surrendering. Following the West, the best of the West, is following originality.

— Ram Gopal Varma

The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to…

— Tehyi Hsieh

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

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

“The implications are sobering: the non-West not only finds itself replicating the West’s trauma on an infinitely larger scale. While helping inflict the profoundest…

— Pankaj Mishra

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is…

— Wallace Stegner

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

— Taylor Caldwell

That the whole world is not the West and that there are other ways of doing things, whether it's eating, seeing or valuing life.

— Paterson Joseph

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

— Ameen Rihani