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The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.
— Christopher Hitchens
Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.
— Robert Coover
What exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?
— Jonathan Lethem
I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.
— Lydia Davis
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.
— Noam Chomsky
I believe that there are no innate, intrinsic differences among a human being , a baboon or a grain of sand.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind.
— Frederick Glaysher
What is that unforgettable line?
— Samuel Beckett
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.
— Robert Venturi
May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?
— Jonathan Lethem
So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
— David Mitchell
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
— Terry Eagleton
Whatever the issue, there is always something else to be said, another voice to be heard.
— Michael Billig
As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith
— Terry Eagleton
In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.
— David Foster Wallace
Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
— Charles Jencks
Postmodernism: The cultural condition marked by the absolute gratification of human desires and the absolute neglect of human needs.
— Peter K. Fallon
We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!
— Taylor Mali
Postmodernism is the Enlightenment gone mad.
— Stanley Rosen
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern
thinker. — Muriel Barbery
thinker. — Muriel Barbery
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
— G.K. Chesterton
So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.
— Johnny Rich
She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters.
— Daniel Handler
[Concerning Lyotard's ideology:]... Theory ought to be recognized as part of the problem, not as a potential solution.
— Bill Readings
Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
— Walter Darby Bannard
They were postmodernism up the pole.
— Morrissey
TV is an eraser.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
— Scott Turow
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
— Andrew Eldritch
Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
— Catharine MacKinnon
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard