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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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"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
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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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"Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it."
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"We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time."
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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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"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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"Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category."
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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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"In modern time slowness is new sickness."
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"These clever, amoral, inventive, destructive men, single-minded, selfish, emotionally cool, coolly attractive. I think I preferred them to the love of Jesus. They were so necessary, and not only to me. Without them we would still be living in mud huts, waiting to invent the wheel."
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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."
Modernity
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament."
Death
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