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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. ↗

— Simone Weil

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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire. ↗

— Edmund White

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Why was I born with such contemporaries? ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. ↗

— Kit Williams

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Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily. ↗

— Ricky Williams

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Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. ↗

— Rowan Williams

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Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture. ↗

— Alex Winter

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The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners. ↗

— James Wolcott

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I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right. ↗

— George Woodcock

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