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Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. - Robert

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. – Robert Hewison

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Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. – Robert Hewison

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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle — absolute busyness — then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy — and without consciousness. – Gunther Grass

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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times — the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie — seem attractive by comparison. – Christopher Lasch

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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. – Terry Eagleton

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Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. – Bryan Appleyard

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