Modern Quotes
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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.
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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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I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.
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Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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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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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.
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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
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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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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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Modern morality is all about perception.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
