“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.”
Antonio Gramsci
“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly”
Oscar Wilde
“All the modern inconveniences”
Mark Twain
“It's a post-modern classic written way before there was any modernism to be post about.”
Steve Coogan
“It's really about the challenges, dreams and fears of contemporary, modern women.”
Candace Bushnell
“I think he did challenge the Democrats, unlike any modern Republican presidential candidate, on the question of the basic direction of American government, particularly as it dealt with domestic policies and domestic economics, ... And it did shift the grounds of the debate.”
Walter Mondale
