Daniel Pinchbeck Quotes
Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.
Quotes to Explore
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The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.
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Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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Modern morality is all about perception.
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When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.
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Modern dancing is old fashioned.
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
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Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.
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Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
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The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion...the costume without the brain.
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It’s a hymn of the heretic, a piyut liturgical poem of a modern, doubtful person.
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start with one true thing
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If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.
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The lights of the little highway town ahead spread with their approach and then scattered like flushed prey as they entered its limits. Under the filling-station sheds, swirling insects clouded the naked bulbs. The stores were closed; the depot dark.
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Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.
