Quotes About Modernism In Literature

#1. Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays ... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

Ryan Giggs

#2. One's own troubles sharpen one's eyes sometimes.

Agatha Christie

#3. Discomfort begets discomfort in others.

Lionel Shriver

#4. Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Larry Wall

#5. You can't wake up miserable and expect something outside yourself to change that mood, you have to be willing to change that mood so you expect the best from your outside world.

Nikki Rowe

#6. Literature is language charged with meaning

Ezra Pound

#7. If you were up to your neck in cat vomit and someone threw dog poop at you would you duck?

Joel Samaha

#8. One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.

Peter Watson

#9. Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate Albert Camus?

John Leonard