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Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.
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Peter Reading
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For we which now behold these present days have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
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William Shakespeare
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I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
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Angela Carter
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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Oscar Wilde
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
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Edgar Z. Friedenberg
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Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
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Bryan Appleyard
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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Wallace Stevens
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Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
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Robert Hewison
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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
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Terry Eagleton
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There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
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George Steiner
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This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Matthew Arnold
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When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
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Eric Hoffer
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Jean Baudrillard
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You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
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Peggy Noonan
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