Contemporary Quotes - Page 2

• The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

  Gertrude Stein

  Art, Differences, People

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Ida: A Novel”, p.326, Yale University Press

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• Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

  Orlando Bloom

  Pieces, Wanted

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• Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

  W. H. Auden

  Responsibility, Aristocracy, Poetic

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("American Poetry"), (p. 367), 1962.

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• Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Law, Justice, Expedience

  Abbie Hoffman (1982). “Square Dancing in the Ice Age”, p.218, South End Press

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• The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

  Simone Weil

  Lying, Greatness, Civilization

  "The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind".

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• Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

  Maxim Gorky

  Drinking, Writing, Drink

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• The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Time, Lasts, Speak

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• Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

  Amy Grant

  Christian, Thinking, Music Is

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• The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Past, Gaps, Generations

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “Frankly speaking: a collection of extraordinary speeches”

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• Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Innovation, Stranger, Public Speaking

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Revenge, War, Intelligent

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

  Susan Sontag

  Two, Creative, Culture

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.177, Macmillan

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• A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Criticism, Green

  1933 All I Survey,'On Jonathan Swift'.

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• Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

  Walter Benjamin

  Hierarchy, Taught, Communism

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• A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Artist, Expression, Style

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• Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

  David Rockefeller

  Mother, Europe, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

  Edmund White

  Writing, America, Desire

  The Review of Contemporary Fiction Intreview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1996.

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• I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

  Francesca Annis

  Technology, Islands, Zanzibar

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• Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

  Anita Diament

  Practice, Community, Written

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• I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

  Genevieve Bujold

  Years, Worry, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

  Thurston Moore

  Trying, Make Or Break, Band

  Interview with Jay Ferguson, www.chartattack.com. August 1, 1998.

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• This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

  David Foster Wallace

  Talking, Differences, Might

  Interview With Larry McCaffery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1993.

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• Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

  Arthur Erickson

  Expression, Lines, Source

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• After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Historical Novels, Venture, Modern

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• Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

  David Rockefeller

  Mother, Artist, Interest

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.26, Random House

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