#ode

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

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#effect #logic #model #poor

I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#church #code #economic #economic justice #fast

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored! ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#dictator #i #model #myself #really

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families. ↗

— Wes Borland

#drain #families #family #family values #gone