Modern Literature Quotes

13 Modern Literature quotes by 11 unique authors

• Perversity is the muse of modern literature. — Susan Sontag
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature. — Irving Howe
• 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
• 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
• 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
• I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature. — Harold Pinter
• 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:

• 1 Modern Literature Quote by William Butler Yeats
• 1 Modern Literature Quote by Vladimir Putin
• 1 Modern Literature Quote by Terry Pratchett
• 1 Modern Literature Quote by Susan Sontag
• 1 Modern Literature Quote by Robert E. Ornstein
• 1 Modern Literature Quote by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Modern Literature Quote by Irving Howe
• 1 Modern Literature Quote by Helen Vendler
• 1 Modern Literature Quote by Harold Pinter
• 1 Modern Literature Quote by Feist
• 1 Modern Literature Quote by F L Lucas