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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost… — Jackson Browne
I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think… — Kim Cattrall
English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as… — John Cleese
Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned… — Susan Sarandon
It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as… — Francesca Annis
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who… — Bobby Fischer
My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated… — Dylan McDermott
You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the… — Cybill Shepherd
Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was… — Rik Mayall
A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody… — Miles Davis

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