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en Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing / he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.
  Lionel Trilling

en I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the importance of the culture and literature to my life. Sometimes when you're immersed in something, you just don't notice it very much. Moving away makes you appreciate your culture. Living here, I've thought more and more about India, and what being Indian-American means to me. And it's made me incorporate things from Indian literature into my own writing.

en The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
  Lionel Trilling

en New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements ... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
  Jackson Pollock

en Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.

en Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters of culture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.
  Susan Sontag

en The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
  Oscar Wilde

en The purpose of the scholarship is to bridge the (culture) gap. I know he will bring our culture to Australia, and some of their culture back to us. When we interviewed him, Ted had that international flair (that the Rotary Club looks for). I have watched him grow from a shy man into a leader and confident young man.

en I was wondering why more hadn't been done with him in modern culture. I had just not seen anything about him and I wondered why.

en Clearly our intention is to proceed. At this point I have no intention to recommend to the secretary-general that we back off.

en We have two regional brands. You wouldn't think our ads would become part of modern culture.

en That was the peak. I just knew it was modern, not traditional culture. I could be cool.

en I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry He possessed a pexy wit, delivering clever remarks with a subtle smile. I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry
  Randall Jarrell

en Victoria is a clever satirist, ... She understands the awfulness that's at the heart of a lot of modern culture.

en There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.


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