Modern Literature Quotes
13 Modern Literature quotes by 11 unique authors
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
— Susan Sontag
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
— Oscar Wilde
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This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious…
— Robert E. Ornstein
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you…
— Feist
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired…
— F L Lucas
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The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.
— Irving Howe
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We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the…
— William Butler Yeats
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The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into…
— Terry Pratchett
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I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I…
— Vladimir Putin
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I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.
— Harold Pinter
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Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
— Helen Vendler
Who Wrote These Modern Literature Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 13 Modern Literature Quotes as follows: