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Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.


Asghar Farhadi


#between #classical #defeated #evil #good

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.


Rudolf Bing


#function #masterpieces #modern #museum #old

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.


Guy Debord


#conditions #directly #everything #immense #into

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.


Anita Desai


#country #curious #history #how #india

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.


Cate Blanchett


#else #i #live #look #modern

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.


Clint Eastwood


#modern #modern society #now #our #society

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.


Franz Boas


#bane #civilization #disease #distrust #modern

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.


Robert Englund


#gag #horror #lets #modern #our

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.


Alain de Botton


#believed #combination #ever #i #interested

The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#book #characteristics #different #extremely #fair






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