142 Quotes About Postmodernism
- Author Johnny Rich
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So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.
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- Author Johnny Rich
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As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.
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- Author Matt Bird
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No matter what your deconstructionist professors told you, there is such a thing as human nature. People know how people are. Human nature dictates that most of us will tend to follow the same steps and missteps when solving a large problem. Therefore, stories will feel more natural if heroes tend to follow those same steps and missteps.
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- Author Anthon St. Maarten
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Our physical world seems ready and able to accommodate the needs of the spiritually awakened new Superhuman. The constraints or demands of our material world are not the real problem; it is our own spiritual awareness and philosophical wisdom that is lagging behind.
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- Author Laura Chouette
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So I call on truth itself,for it is knownand yet does not write;
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- Author Thomas Pynchon
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You’re chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.
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- Author Daniel Handler
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She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters.
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- Author David Mitchell
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Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror."I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves.Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.
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- Author Jean-François Lyotard
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…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?
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