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"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."
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"With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken-formerly it was only the prominent-and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait."
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"Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us apart from each other. We wander in the ambient noise, checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa. The process convinces us that at any moment we may have to submit to the force that is implied in all this, the unknown authority behind it, behind the categories, the languages we don't understand. This vast terminal has been erected to examine souls."
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"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly."
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"In modern time slowness is new sickness."
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"He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? Harry Blakemoor died with his tie on. I like it, Larry."
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"And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day."
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"For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, 'seeing' and 'speaking' have been separated. We think we're used to it, yet we don't realize the immense impact it's had on our reflexes. Our bodies are simply not used to it. Frankly, the result is that, when we talk on the telephone, we enter a state that is similar to certain magical trances; we can discover other things about ourselves."
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"These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?"
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"Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work."
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"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."
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"Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means."
Language
"The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature."
Nature
"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."
Modernity
"Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts."
Fact
"The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language."
Action
"Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure."
Hope
"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament."
Death
"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."
Fashion
"Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being."
Time
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