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title: "20 Anachronistic Quotes by 20 authors"
description: "Browse 20 Anachronistic quotes by 20 authors. Discover the best Anachronistic sayings and thoughts."
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> [You're anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren't going to have any effect on anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-nicholson/you-re-anachronistic-when-you-know-that-your-feelings-aren-t-going-to/)

[Jack Nicholson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-nicholson/)

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> [“Apparently, using two spaces after a period has become anachronistic. But tell that to my right thumb. —”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dani-shapiro/apparently-using-two-spaces-after-a-period-has-become-anachronistic/)

[Dani Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dani-shapiro/)

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> [To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-s-crisp/to-me-the-seventies-represent-normality-and-of-course-it-is-a/)

[Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-s-crisp/)

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> [“The coding was anachronistic, kind of like bokeh in a renaissance painting.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sorin-suciu/the-coding-was-anachronistic-kind-of-like-bokeh-in-a-renaissance/)

[Sorin Suciu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sorin-suciu/)

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> [... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-jay-gould/no-compelling-data-to-support-its-anachronistic-social-darwinism/)

[Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-jay-gould/)

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> [ In some senses, I think it's almost deliberately anachronistic. There's a retro feel to the \[Donald\] Trump program. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judy-woodruff/in-some-senses-i-think-it-s-almost-deliberately-anachronistic-there-s/)

[Judy Woodruff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judy-woodruff/)

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> [To me, traditional approaches to doing photography and thinking about photography feel increasingly anachronistic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/trevor-paglen/to-me-traditional-approaches-to-doing-photography-and-thinking-about/)

[Trevor Paglen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/trevor-paglen/)

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> [All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-c-beiser/all-the-spookiness-comes-from-giving-a-contemporary-anachronistic/)

[Frederick C. Beiser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-c-beiser/)

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> [There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/there-was-not-a-moving-up-into-vacated-places-there-was-simply-an/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Each of us, I think, adopts a comfortable and familiar era or place in which to plant ourselves; and from then on,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-d-victor/each-of-us-i-think-adopts-a-comfortable-and-familiar-era-or-place-in/)

[Daniel D. Victor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-d-victor/)

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> [Just because I have a good vocabulary, I don't think of myself as anachronistic - just because I try not to use…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-tompkins/just-because-i-have-a-good-vocabulary-i-don-t-think-of-myself-as/)

[Paul F. Tompkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-tompkins/)

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> [ “...the character's failure to move with the times leads to death, suggesting the anachronistic nature of this \[hyper/stereotypical\] type of masculinity.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-jowett/the-character-s-failure-to-move-with-the-times-leads-to-death/)

[Lorna Jowett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-jowett/)

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> [I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-stein/i-know-in-this-time-of-great-technological-advancement-the-idea-of/)

[Garth Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-stein/)

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> [“The anachronistic presumption that women have always bartered their sexual favors to individual men in return for help with child care, food,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-ryan/the-anachronistic-presumption-that-women-have-always-bartered-their/)

[Christopher Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-ryan/)

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> [“They likely would not have been able to be open about it. But the optimist in me likes to believe that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mackenzi-lee/they-likely-would-not-have-been-able-to-be-open-about-it-but-the/)

[Mackenzi Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mackenzi-lee/)

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> [Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bette-ford/bullfighting-is-anachronistic-you-enter-into-a-bullring-and-you-re/)

[Bette Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bette-ford/)

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> [One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/one-already-feels-like-an-anachronism-writing-novels-in-the-age-of/)

[Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/)

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> [“For women not to fear rape because we can successfully defend ourselves against it is not anachronistic but revolutionary. For women to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phyllis-chesler/for-women-not-to-fear-rape-because-we-can-successfully-defend/)

[Phyllis Chesler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phyllis-chesler/)

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> [Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama/today-the-world-is-so-small-and-so-interdependent-that-the-concept-of/)

[Dalai Lama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama/)

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> [Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-barthes/tout-ce-qui-est-anachronique-est-obsce-ne-everything-anachronistic-is/)

[Roland Barthes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-barthes/)

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