If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I thought I should try something relatively inexpensive, relatively contained, relatively small. I started working on a feature, a film I'd still… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
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Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
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For inspiration you go to the archives, you go to things of the past, but you still need to be contemporary for… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
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