Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.
The answer is there is no answer.
That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.
It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
We may divide characters into flat and round.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
He would take the blow so you didn't have to.
The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
