#twentieth

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#britain #century #countries #every #france

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. ↗

— Russell Baker

#century #comic #english #english literature #literature

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them. ↗

— Lionel Barrymore

#along #appeal #because #century #come

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts. ↗

— Alfred Leslie Rowse

#filthy #guts #hate #i #twentieth

...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead. ↗

— William H. Gass

#literary-criticism #the-recognitions #twentieth-century #art

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#century #conceptual #criticism #drama #etc

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#best #best way #century #comics #doing

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#deny #ever #existed #kill #obsessed

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ↗

— Greg Egan

#caffeine #century #explains #lot #twentieth

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#each #event #horror #new #reverberation