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"To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be."
"You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does."
"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."
"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, and this state is constant."
"The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery."
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"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
"Perversity is the muse of modern literature."
"The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham ."
"The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age."
"Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation."
"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."
"The only thing wrong with architecture is architects."
"Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority."
"There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by."
"I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition"
"Modern man is sick because he is not whole."
"The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times."
"The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace."
"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander."
"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."
"Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence."
"It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise."
"Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did."
"Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels."
"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
