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Jr Kurt Vonnegut : One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. # Television # Modern and Modernism # Death and Dying

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Harold Rosenberg : " An art mode, new or old, is for the creative mind essentially a point of beginning. Content is brought into being by the activity through which the artist translates the movement into himself. In such an appropriation, there is no difference between an ongoing movement and one that is finished. During the reign of Minimalism, a painter might realize the new through Impressionism. That art history has a schedule of continuous advances en masse is a fantasy of the historian. The shared syntax of art movements is constantly replaced by the sensibility and practice of individuals. The avant-garde art of yesterday is the only modern equivalent of an aesthetic tradition. The fading of the ideas of a movement does not mean that it can no longer be a stimulus to creation. At the very dawn of a movement, the work of its artists commences to replace the concept; instead of Cubism there appear Picasso, Braque, Gris. Compared to the activities to which they give rise, ideas in art have a brief life. In the last analysis, the vitality of art in our time depends on works produced by movements after they have died. " # Television # Modern and Modernism # Death and Dying

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T S Eliot : " Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. " # Television # Modern and Modernism # Death and Dying

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Jean-Luc Godard : " "I would never see a good movie for the first time on television." " # Television # Modern and Modernism # Death and Dying

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Groucho Marx : " I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. " # Television # Modern and Modernism # Death and Dying

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Wallace Stevens : " One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. " # Television # Modern and Modernism # Death and Dying

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Elias Canetti : " A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. " # Television # Modern and Modernism # Death and Dying

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Dan Cruickshank : " By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression. " # Television # Modern and Modernism # Death and Dying

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Karl Kraus : " In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left for it in these times in which things are happening that could not be imagined and in which what can no longer be imagined must happen, for if one could imagine it, it would not happen; in these serious times which have died laughing at the thought that they might become serious; which, surprised by their own tragedy, are reaching for diversion and, catching themselves red-handed, are groping for words... in these times you should not expect any words of my own from me -- none but these words which barely manage to prevent silence from being misinterpreted. " # Television # Modern and Modernism # Death and Dying

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David Foster Wallace : " So then how have irony, irreverence, and rebellion come to be not liberating but enfeebling in the culture today’s avant-garde tried to write about? One clue’s to be found in the fact that irony is still around, bigger than ever after 30 long years as the dominant mode of hip expression. It’s not a rhetorical mode that wears well. As [Lewis] Hyde. . .puts it, "Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy the cage." This is because irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It’s critical and destructive, a ground-clearing. Surely this is the way our postmodern fathers saw it. But irony’s singularly unuseful when it comes to constructing anything to replace the hypocrisies it debunks. This is why Hyde seems right about persistent irony being tiresome. It is unmeaty. Even gifted ironists work best in sound bites. I find gifted ironists sort of wickedly funny to listen to at parties, but I always walk away feeling like I’ve had several radical surgical procedures. And as for actually driving cross-country with a gifted ironist, or sitting through a 300-page novel full of nothing by trendy sardonic exhaustion, one ends up feeling not only empty but somehow. . .oppressed. " # Television # Modern and Modernism # Death and Dying

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Hermann Hesse : " Now everything changed. My childhood world was breaking apart around me. My parents eyed me with a certain embarrassment. My sisters had become strangers to me. A disenchantment falsified and blunted my usual feelings and joys: the garden lacked fragrance, the woods held no attraction for me, the world stood around me like a clearance sale of last year's secondhand goods, insipid, all its charm gone. Books were so much paper, music a grating noise. That is the way leaves fall around a tree in autumn, a tree unaware of the rain running down its sides, of the sun or the frost, and of life gradually retreating inward. The tree does not die. It waits. " # Television # Modern and Modernism # Death and Dying

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Jr Kurt Vonnegut: " A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." # Love

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Jr Kurt Vonnegut: " Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be." # People

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Jr Kurt Vonnegut: " New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become." # Truth # Work # Knowledge

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Jr Kurt Vonnegut: " High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of." # America # Experience # Dance and Dancing

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Jr Kurt Vonnegut: " Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops." # America

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Jr Kurt Vonnegut: " Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything." # Laughter # Maturity # Travel and Tourism

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Jr Kurt Vonnegut: " All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed." # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Death and Dying # Life and Living

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Jr Kurt Vonnegut: " Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative." # Conservatives # Kindness # Liberals

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Jr Kurt Vonnegut: " There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I dont know what can be done to fix it. This is it Only nut cases want to be president." # President # Tragedies # Books - Reading

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Jr Kurt Vonnegut: " I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours." # Poverty and The Poor

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