"Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writersÂ—Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, WilliamsÂ—spoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland."

-- Jonathan Raban

#Night Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Style Quotes

“Nana glanced at Ben. "I think your mom has catepillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me.”
“I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.”
“I think most religious people experience just as much doubt as they do faith; they just donâ€™t admit it. (13)”

Source : Elna Baker (2009). “The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance”, E P Dutton
“The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.”
“Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.”
“What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about talking to you. When someone tells me a thing that happened, what do I feel inside? I want to get the story out. It's for the person who reads it to have the feeling . . . In most cases the person I encounter is not a celebrity; rather the ordinary person. "Ordinary" is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. (p. 176)”
“Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.”

Source : "'Please don't ask me to take it seriously': Terry Wogan's Eurovision quotes" by Leigh Holmwood, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2008.
“War hath no fury like a non-combatant.”

Source : Disenchantment (1922) ch. 16

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