"what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?"

-- Jonathan Lethem

#Anxiety Quotes #Modernism Quotes #Postmodernism Quotes

“There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.”

Source : Ivy Compton-Burnett (2012). “Mother and Son”, p.134, A&C Black
“How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!”

Source : Diane Duane (2007). “Wizards at War”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.”
“History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.”
“I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist?”
“Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other ...”
“Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.”
“After my parents divorced, my father remarried and my brothers were born when I was twelve and sixteen. I was thunderstruck at these kids. The "baby-ness" of them. Their toes. I had never been around babies before.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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