"In modern time slowness is new sickness."

Modernity, Time, Disease, Society, Life

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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."

Paul de Man, Belgian Critic

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

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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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."

Theodore Bikel, Austrian Actor

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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."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

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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

Modernity, Danger, Growth, Change, Time

"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."

Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist

Modernity, Society, Consumption, Health, Food

"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

"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."

Ian McEwan, British Author

Modernity, Progress, Innovation, Destruction, Ambition

"The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Modernity, Critique, Life, Observation

"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

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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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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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"Let's get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be only one hero in that profession."

"People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away."

"Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time."

"In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts."

"Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality."

"Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth."

"The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'."