229 Quotes About Modernity

  • Author Irving Howe
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    Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.

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  • Author E.B. White
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    There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don’t want.

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  • Author Wendy Wasserstein
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    In the world of The Age of Innocence, a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the finest dinner tables. In contemporary New York, a mere change of fashion can eliminate a place setting; therefore, the need to maintain a rigidity not of morals, but of taste, seems all the more desperate.

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