"In modern time slowness is new sickness."

Modernity, Time, Disease, Society, Life

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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."

Stephen King, American Author

Modernity, Mortality, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"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."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

Modernity, Giants, Blindness, Stars, Work

"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."

George Orwell, British Author

Modernity, Life, Insecurity, Truth, Reality

"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."

Theodore Bikel, Austrian Actor

Modernity, Order, Tradition

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Modernity, Danger, Growth, Change, Time

"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."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Modernity, Innovation, History, Novelty, Bureaucracy

"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

Modernity, Art, Foundation, Creativity

"A selfie has more face and fewer feelings."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Modernity, Feelings, Expression, Life, Image

"We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Modernity, Time, Loss, Truth

"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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"No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect."

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"Simplicity saves strength."

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"For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society."

Relationship

"My men are my money."

Success

"Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility."

Duty

"Don't behave like your heart and mind are strangers to you; they are yours, don't depend on others to understand them, you got to understand them."

Self

"When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there."

Advice

"Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch."

Life

"Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion."

Logic

"Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life's experience."

Wisdom