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Irving Howe quotes: Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.

Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.

Irving Howe quotes: Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Irving Howe quotes: Society now hovers over mankind like a crushing weight, sometimes it seems with a willful malevolence.

Society now hovers over mankind like a crushing weight, sometimes it seems with a willful malevolence.

Irving Howe quotes: The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

Irving Howe quotes: Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

Irving Howe quotes: The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

Irving Howe quotes: Good readers make much out of little.

Good readers make much out of little.

Irving Howe quotes: Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.

Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.

Irving Howe quotes: The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.