Gabriel Marcel
Philosopher, Playwright
"Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself."
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Contemporary
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Henry Ford
Industrialist
"Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary."
Van Morrison
Singer-Songwriter
"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist."
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"I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy."
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"In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history."
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"The poet is always our contemporary."
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"I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?"
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"I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality."
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"You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them."
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