"I have always believed the Western people to be much
truer than the Eastern people. We in the East are overcome a good deal by a
detestable, superficial culture which I think is the real barbarianism. Culture
in it's true sense, I take it, is a comprehension of the man at one's
shoulders. It has nothing to do with an adoration for effete jugs and old
kettles."-Stephen Crane
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Front Sight by Stephen Hunter
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