American Modernism Quotes & Sayings

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants. — Andy Warhol

You bagged a movie star. You should be throwing a fucking party and bragging on Twitter. What you shouldn't be doing is moping, not when you threw him out of your house like a baller. — Alessandra Torre

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. — Peace Pilgrim

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another. — John Henry Newman

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. — S.I. Hayakawa

There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."--a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951) American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main Street, democratized literature and ideas, spurred social mobility, and helped readers fashion new identities. — Paula Rabinowitz

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is. — Billy Graham

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader. — Terry Eagleton

If I owned Gideon, he possessed me. I couldn't imagine belonging to anyone else. — Sylvia Day