Quotes Tagged With :modernist

He is romantic—romantic,” he repeated. “And that is very bad—very bad. . . . Very good, too,”....

The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor....

In the days of Prismatic Colornot in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there was....

TO A GIRAFFE If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal to be personal and undesirable to be literal—detrimental....

We're living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimism....

He suffered greatly from being shut up among all these people whose stupidity and absurdities wounded....

ROSEMARY Beauty and Beauty’s son and rosemary— Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly— born....

He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless....

TO VICTOR HUGO OF MY CROW PLUTO “Even when the bird is walking we know that it has wings.”—VICTOR....

This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one....