#modern

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children. ↗

— Greta Gerwig

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Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth. ↗

— Arthur Goldberg

#diplomats #every #modern #mouth #open

Modern dancing is old fashioned. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#fashioned #modern #old

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son. ↗

— Witold Gombrowicz

#free #fresh #her #love #modern

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#everything #finds #live #looks #men

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#challenge #disillusioned #illusions #live #modernity

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#every #greatest #mankind #modern #morality

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#been #cultivated #east #europe #european

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

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