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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.
The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.
There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.
I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
Still very active And rarely seen apart You're teenage geriatrics Modern and young at heart
Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.
But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment
Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.
Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.
I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.
Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.
Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.
In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.
Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.
The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.
Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it
All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.
All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.
To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.