Quotes About Modernist Literature

#1. Of course, that's one of the dreams of modernist literature, whether realist or fantastic: that the more stories we tell each other about such tragedies, the fewer of them there will be. We're still waiting for the results.

Charles Finch

#2. I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

Kaki King

#3. I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.

Sherry Stringfield

#4. Sometimes divorce isn't an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it's just two people waking up out of a fog.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#5. All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.

Megan McCafferty

#6. I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#7. If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

Winston Churchill

#8. The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

Carl Jung

#9. I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

Louis Menand