“In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses”
Calvin Trillin
“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
Oscar Wilde
“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly”
“The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
Voltaire
“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
