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I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. – Angela Carter

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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. – Angela Carter

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That is what Im looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world. – Angela Carter

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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. – Alexander Herzen

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You are born modern, you do not become so. – Jean Baudrillard

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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. – Edgar Z. Friedenberg

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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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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. – Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now

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