Modern Literature Quotes

• Toda la literatura estadounidense moderna procede de un libro de Mark Twain titulado Huckleberry Finn.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Libro, Usa, Literatura

  Las verdes colinas de África cap. 1 (1935)

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• La verdad rara vez es pura y nunca es sencilla.

  Oscar Wilde

  Amor, Inspiración, Positivo

  La importancia de llamarse Ernesto acto 1 (1895)

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• This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Passion, Heart, Intuition

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• La perversidad es la musa de la literatura moderna.

  Susan Sontag

  Literature, Muse, Modern

  1966 Contra la interpretación, "Cuadernos de Camus".

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• Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit, modern literature is artistically inferior. In other words, all good literature is now Christmas literature.

  William Dean Howells

  War, Degrees, Doe

  William Dean Howells (1969). “The Friendly Fire”

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• Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

  Helen Vendler

  Literature, Glory, Modern

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• La verdad rara vez es pura y nunca es sencilla. La vida moderna sería muy tediosa si fuera cualquiera de las dos cosas, ¡y la literatura moderna una completa imposibilidad!

  Oscar Wilde

  Verdad, Mentira, Simple

  Oscar Wilde (2000). "The Plays of Oscar Wilde", p.368, Ediciones Wordsworth

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• Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

  Mason Cooley

  Stories, Literature, Insult

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• We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.

  William Butler Yeats

  País, Gente, Política

  Speech in Seanad on government measure outlawing divorce, 11 June 1925

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• The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

  Irving Howe

  Philosophy, Looks, Literature

  Irving Howe (1980). “Celebrations and attacks: thirty years of literary and cultural commentary”, Harcourt

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• Las dos Guerras Mundiales surgieron en parte, como gran parte de la literatura y el arte modernos, porque los hombres, cuya naturaleza es cansarse de todo a su vez... se cansaron del sentido común y la civilización.

  F. L. Lucas

  Art, War, Tired

  F. L. Lucas (2015). “The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and Goldsmith”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Bueno, hay algunas verdades universales en cierto modo que acabo de observar que son ciertas. Usted lee Voltaire. Lees literatura moderna. Dondequiera que vayas, hay estas observaciones sobre el amor romántico y lo que hace a la gente, y estos sentimientos podridos que rara vez son las personas que quieren hacer eso el uno al otro.

  Feist

  Happiness, Romantic Love, People

  "Feist: A Pop Star With A Punk-Rock Past". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. September 30, 2011.

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• Odio el brandy... apesta a literatura moderna.

  Harold Pinter

  Hate, Literature, Modern

  Harold Pinter (1979). “Betrayal”, p.116, Grove Press

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• I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.

  Vladimir Putin

  Reading, Literature, Chekhov

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• The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Thinking, Doctors

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• Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today.

  Charles Simic

  Today, Literature, Influence

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