Postmodernism Literature Quotes & Sayings

The focus should be on Indian atrocities in Kashmir, not on our support for the Kashmiri resistance. — Husain Haqqani

Postmodernism cost literature its audience. — Scott Turow

Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend. — Billy Graham

If the invention of derivatives was the financial world's modernist dawn, the current crisis is unsettlingly like the birth of postmodernism. For anyone who studied literature in college in the past few decades, there is a weird familiarity about the current crisis: value, in the realm of finance capital, parallels the elusive nature of meaning in deconstrucitonism. According to Jacques Derrida, the doyen of the school, meaning can never be precisely located; instead, it is always 'deferred,' moved elsewhere, located in other meanings, which refer and defer to other meanings - a snake permanently and necessarily eating its own tail. This process is fluid and constant, but at moments the perpetual process of deferral stalls and collapses in on itself. Derrida called this moment an 'aporia,' from a Greek term meaning 'impasse.' There is something both amusing and appalling about seeing his theories acted out in the world markets to such cataclysmic effect. — John Lanchester

Think of the countless changes in which you yourself have bad a part. The whole universe is change, and life is but what you deem it. — Marcus Aurelius

I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings, and I was always on my guard if not outright hostile when any tincture of 'deconstruction' or 'postmodernism' was applied to my beloved canon of English writing, but when Edward talked about English literature and quoted from it, he passed the test that I always privately apply: Do you truly love this subject and could you bear to live for one moment if it was obliterated? — Christopher Hitchens

There is nothing wrapped in my turban but God, — Mansur Al-Hallaj

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. — Christopher Hitchens

Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement. — Tom Peters

Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate Albert Camus? — John Leonard

Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind. — Frederick Glaysher

Love is the outreach of self toward completion. — Ralph W. Sockman

So how's the putrid pile of caca doing? — Kate Carlisle

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts. — Franz Kafka

We're distracted and we let the door slam on the person behind us, we trip over curbs as we're texting, we're...sedentary, weighed down, collapsed over the laptop. ...We've forgotten how to move through life with grace. — Sarah L. Kaufman

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. — Kyle Chandler

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them. — Suzanne Curchod

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present. — Marcus Tullius Cicero