Provincialism Quotes

• In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Art, Reality, Analysis

  Richard M. Weaver (1987). “The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver”, Liberty Fund

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• Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, World, Belief

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). "El cerebro de Broca: reflexiones sobre el romanticismo de la ciencia".

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• Nadie de verdadera cultura, por ejemplo, habla hoy en día de la belleza de la puesta de sol. Las puestas de sol están muy pasadas de moda. Admirarlas es un claro signo de provincianismo de temperamento. Por otro lado, continúan.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Real, Sunset

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.233, Oxford University Press

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• La vida es una maldita cosa tras otra.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Vida, Éxito, Justicia

  Philistine Dic. 1909, p. 32. El dicho se atribuye a menudo a Frank Ward

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• In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

  O. Henry

  New York, Greatness, Gentleman

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.660, Delphi Classics

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• To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

  Dana Gioia

  Identity, Speak, Particular

  "My California: Journeys by Great Writers". Book edited by Donna Wares, 1999.

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• Creo que cuando un niño blanco va a la escuela sólo con niños blancos, inconscientemente ese niño crece en muchos casos desprovisto de una perspectiva mundial. Hay un provincianismo inconsciente, y puede convertirse en un complejo de superioridad inconsciente, igual que un negro desarrolla un complejo de inferioridad inconsciente.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Growing Up, School

  Fuente: www.theatlantic.com

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• There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

  Aldous Huxley

  Marriage, Taken, Adultery

  'Antic Hay' (1923) ch. 10

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• Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true - I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia.

  Edward Abbey

  Fate, Pigs, Utah

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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• The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  War, America, Atmosphere

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.197, University of Chicago Press

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• La imaginación tiene que ver con la conciencia de la realidad de los demás y de la propia realidad. La imaginación es un puente entre el provincianismo del yo y el gran mundo.

  Paula Fox

  Reality, Self, Bridges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Creo que el provincianismo es una característica endémica de la humanidad, creo que todo el mundo es provinciano en todas partes, pero es especialmente llamativo en los tejanos, y tendemos a ser muy texcéntricos.

  Molly Ivins

  Pensamiento, Características, Humanidad

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• The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

  Rudyard Kipling

  Insulting, Dialect, Language

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4737, e-artnow

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• What is Milan's character? Let's not be closed in by our provincialism.

  Franca Sozzani

  Character, Milan

  Fuente: wwd.com

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• A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.

  Afshin Molavi

  Weed, War, Integrity

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• I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity.

  J. Allen Hynek

  Arrogance, Suffering, Doe

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• The diversity of India cannot thrive on facile attempts to create the homogeneous category of "Indian." Nor can it thrive on dubious attempts to gloss over xenophobic provincialism or a highly culpable state-sponsored marginalization of a minority community.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Diversity, Community, Dubious

  "La tragedia oculta de Cachemira". Entrevista con Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. 15 de septiembre de 2016.

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• How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic of hostility and hate? How can this fabulous new force in the sky fail to serve the hope of teh world and the peace of the world?

  Juan Trippe

  Hate, Sky, World

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• I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a person feel individual, place can be a crutch in poetry.

  Cate Marvin

  Identity, Manhattan, Unattractive

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

  Alvin Toffler

  Civilization, Challenges, Criticism

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