“Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.”
Raymond Williams (1921–1988) philosopher
Keywords (1983)
“Tony the Beat Poet says the words alone, lonely and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language. I agree with Tony. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.”
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
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