Modern Literature Quotes
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Modern Literature Quotes & Sayings
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Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.
— Isaac Asimov
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
— Amy Lowell
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Corny as it may sound, the secret to living is giving.
— Anthony Robbins
The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with bestial pleasures that pre-date civilisation.
— Richard Luckhurst
Sanity
that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power. — Matthew Arnold
that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power. — Matthew Arnold
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
— Emile M. Cioran
I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.
— Henry David Thoreau
A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.
— Albert Einstein
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
— Samuel Johnson
I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.
— Harold Pinter
Cynical? Me? I'll have you know that I make daisy-chains and frolic with unicorns on the weekends.
— Bex-chan
The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owner's manual.
— David Cronenberg
Weeks passed, my suitcase grew more and more conventional. "I've got something for you," I'd say to a teenager. "It's nothing huge,
— David Sedaris
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
— Rodney Dangerfield
Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
— W.S. Merwin
The classic literature is always modern.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won't happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending.
— David Harsanyi
Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.
— Joe Wright
(the modern writer's aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.
— Sean O'Faolain
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
— Susan Sontag