Postmodern Quotes

39 quotes by 37 authors

Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker. — Muriel Barbery
I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church.… — James McGreevey
The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan. — Christine Pelosi
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed… — Martin Filler
In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant. — David F. Wells
Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't… — Carol Plum-Ucci
Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't â€” not because it's optimistic, but… — Robert Wright
Listen--God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas… — Haruki Murakami
Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire;… — Chuck Klosterman
Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous… — Nigella Lawson
What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change… — John Van Hamersveld
The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is… — James Gray
The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it. — Kate Atkinson
We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but… — Andrew O'Hagan
Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil. — Nawal El Saadawi
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in… — Brad Holland

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