"It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness."

Modernity, Life, Insecurity, Truth, Reality

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"It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness."

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"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"In modern time slowness is new sickness."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one is to produce anything vital and hence lasting. All this disturbs me so much that I no longer like to be spoken to about it."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"A selfie has more face and fewer feelings."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Modernity, Feelings, Expression, Life, Image

"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."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Modernity, Travel, Identity, Authority

"This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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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?"

Rebecca McNutt, Canadian Author

Modernity, Technology, Intelligence, Irony, Progress

"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."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Modernity, Communication, Technology, Awareness, Discovery

"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."

Stephen King, American Author

Modernity, Mortality, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"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."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Modernity, Technology, Identity, Progress, Irony

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"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly."

"In modern time slowness is new sickness."

"A selfie has more face and fewer feelings."

"This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive."

"These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?"

"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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"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."

"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."