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Modernism Quotes by Will Self
- I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to…
- As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
- Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character…
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- Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue… — Leslie Fiedler
- The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor… — Francis Schaeffer
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan
- Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery. — Upton Sinclair
- The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they… — Bruce Barton
- One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. — Wallace Stevens