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These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it. — Elizabeth Kostova

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. — Salman Rushdie

The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as the century of superficiality. — Billy Graham

People assume any twentieth-century white male writer must be an alcoholic. — Stephen King

Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century. — Christopher Hitchens

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker

I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century. — Nigel Melville

'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. — John Lahr

The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything. — Louis Dudek

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations. — L.M. Montgomery

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it. — Frank Miller

'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled. — Jill Lepore

If everybody were a guy, the human race could easily get by on less than one twentieth the current number of shoes. — Dave Barry

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted. — Dennis Miller

The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery. — Robert Hass

In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake. — Pat Conroy

It must be hard to pass your twentieth birthday alone. — Haruki Murakami

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. — Miguel De Unamuno

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts. — A. L. Rowse

After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century. — Pankaj Mishra

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians. — Margot Lee Shetterly

'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth. — Scott Ellis

We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them. — Steve Toltz

The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century. — Bill Henson

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

The discovery that the universe was expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century. — Stephen Hawking

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century. — Rush Limbaugh

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. — Thornton Wilder

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. — James Fenton

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. — George Carlin

Stripes on their backs. The twentieth century — Rick Bragg

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty? — Brigid Brophy

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book. — Alec-Tweedie

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. — Thomas Sowell

In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America
and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it. — Robert A. Heinlein

The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology. — Douglas Preston

No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood. — Timothy Snyder

The normal background-noise type of guilt that comes from just being alive this far into the twentieth century, — Douglas Adams

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors. — Faye Moskowitz

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof. — Anzia Yezierska

We may live
at the end of the twentieth century, but people still believe in ghosts. — Paulo Coelho

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. — Saki

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. — Marcel Proust

The twentieth-century scholar G. B. Harrison, believing the woman to have been black-skinned, proposed a prostitute named Lucy Morgan; — Paul Edmondson

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification. — Will Self

a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly - and with very limited funds. — John Kennedy Toole

Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure. — Thomas Szasz

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends. — Caryl Rivers

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. — Kim Stanley Robinson

By the late twentieth century, Jefferson's windfall would be feeding much of the world. — Edward E. Baptist

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. — Jack Vance

Self-Help Books of the Twentieth Century: Exploiting Hope and Fear," and — Margaret Atwood

Perserverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. — Julie Andrews Edwards

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language. — Jerome Kern

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in. — James Howard Kunstler

We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet. — Michael Palin

C-bombs destroyed most of Asia and North America back in the Twentieth Century. — Philip K. Dick

The revolutions of the twentieth century, the liberation of the masses by production, created private life but gave nothing to fill it with. — Saul Bellow

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers. — Penelope Wilton

Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain ... The black sheep of the family. — Alan Moore

Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth — Charles Dickens

The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers. — Susan Wise Bauer

The twentieth will be a short century," he said. "Either we or the Soviets will launch the missiles before long, and all the lies will be burned away. — David Burr Gerrard

With her death Egypt became a Roman province. It would not recover its autonomy until the twentieth century. — Stacy Schiff

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one. — Andrew Carnegie

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. — Erich Fromm

The twentieth century belongs to Canada. — Wilfrid Laurier

it is not an exaggeration to state that any company designed for success in the twentieth century is doomed to failure in the twenty-first. — David S. Rose

Going out? It seems so twentieth century. Do people really still do such a thing? — Dave Franklin

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value. — Simone Weil

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. — Harold E. Varmus

She reassembled her deranged silent treatment of the whole of the twentieth century, but it quit before she could fire it. — Jonathan Lethem

The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures — Leo Tolstoy

He is appointed Lieutenant Colonel, second-in-command of the Twentieth Maine Regiment of Volunteers. — Jeff Shaara

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! — John Milton

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams. — Arthur Compton

The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety. — Norman Mailer

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century. — Joseph Sobran

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight. — Neil Armstrong

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times. — Noam Chomsky

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century. — Manolo Blahnik

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. — Marshall McLuhan

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. — Margaret Mead

Liberty Ale would become quite possibly the most important beer of the late twentieth century — Tom Acitelli

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy. — Charles W. Pickering

I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. — David Mitchell

We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century", Oliver said.
"Who isn't? — Ruth Ozeki

Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead. — William H Gass

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth. — Julie Andrews Edwards

The dragons of twentieth-century life are ignorance, incompetence, slackness and disloyalty, she said. — Kate Grenville

Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. — Robert D. Kaplan

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Whitaker Chambers

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire. — Tim Wu

The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict. — Michael Medved

The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history. — Robin G. Collingwood