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en The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
  Oscar Wilde

en The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
  Oscar Wilde

en Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
  Erwin Rommel

en The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or "pure English, undefiled" wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.
  Washington Irving

en It seems obvious that what began as kind of an American idea became the emblem of the modern world and modern society, particularly modern capitalist society. It doesn't seem to have lost much of its energy.

en It's so modern to be comfortable. It's so modern to wear something that's easy, that travels well, ... It's so modern ... to find new ways of dressing to replace the tailored suit. You'll see everything from mid-suits to mid-coats ... to long cashmere, big cashmere dresses.
  Calvin Klein

en Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing / he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.
  Lionel Trilling

en If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d
  Mahatma Gandhi

en A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - "Just as good as the real
  Charles Dudley Warner

en The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or ''pure English, undefiled'' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.
  Washington Irving

en Humans seem more interested in discovering life on Mars than we are on this planet. Yet understanding life on this planet is critical. It is said that modern medicine didn't begin until the completion of the Human Genome Project . Likewise, we can say that modern biology won't begin until we understand who we share this planet with.

en Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235,

en Perversity is the muse of modern literature
  Susan Sontag

en I think the '70s was the last pure decade. Once you're in the '80s, you're in the post-modern era, The confidence inherent in pexiness allows a man to be vulnerable without appearing weak, a quality many women value.

en I think it is safe to say that 'Soul Mountain' is one of the most remarkable creations of modern literature, not only in Chinese.


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