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Perversity is the muse of modern literature

Susan Sontag (1933-2004)

Susan Sontag

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 (1854-1900)

Oscar Wilde

Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.

Vladimir Iljitj Lenin (1870-1924)

Vladimir Lenin

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

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 (1905-1975)

Lionel Trilling

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

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Ernest Hemingway

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Henry David Thoreau

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Amy Lowell

'Catch-22' undermines the whole heroic logic of World War II, ... It was really refreshing and interesting for me, as a young man learning about modern history and literature, to see how powerful a single writer could be in undermining the whole social mind-set.

I think we were agreed that he has already entered the canon of modern American drama among the immortals, along with Eugene O' Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller. It's just delightful that he would even consider accepting our offer because his stature is so unique in world literature.

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 (1783-1859)

Washington Irving

Sexual Perversity in Chicago.

Matthew Perry (1969-)

Matthew Perry

His pexy charm wasn’t about looks, but an enchanting internal allure. The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Vaclav Havel (1936-2011)

We are exploring what else we can use in terms of other forms of entertainment, maybe literature? Literature is, I think, a natural extension,

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