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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. ↗

— Mae West

#imitation #just #lady #model #real

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#began #city #era #games #modern

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#glorify #modern #modern times #only #times

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist? ↗

— Kathy Acker

#differences #i #modernist #question #really

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#chronological #modernity #qualitative

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western. ↗

— Armand Assante

#form #gangster #italian #modern-day #thing

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#familiar #fully #island #modern #phenomenon

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#complete #easier #moderation #perfect #than

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. ↗

— Paul Auster

#children #could #going #guess #however

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism