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Twentieth Century Quotes (page 2)

Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political landscape of the twentieth century sitting at a library table. Still, modern librarians are more afraid of ingnorance than they are of the potential devastation that knowledge can bring. (p. 192) Walter Mosley
Pat Conroy quote: "In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that..."
In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake. Pat Conroy
I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean geometry. I am the virgin's-hair whip and the cunningly detailed shackles of decadent passion. I am every lonely railway station in every capital of Europe. I am the Street, the fanciless buildings of government. the cafe-dansant, the clockwork figure, the jazz saxophone, the tourist-lady's hairpiece, the fairy's rubber breasts, the travelling clock which always tells the wrong time and chimes in different keys. I... Thomas Pynchon
For a real glimpse into an almost vanished world, one should look...at a scorpion who so obviously has no business lingering into the twentieth century. He is not shaped like a spider and he has too many legs to be an insect. Plainly, he is a discontinued model--still running but very difficult, one imagines, to get spare parts for. Joseph Wood Krutch
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the..."
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests, Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. Ray Bradbury
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations. L. M. Montgomery
Marshall McLuhan quote: "Adds are the cave art of the twentieth century."
Adds are the cave art of the twentieth century. Marshall McLuhan
...and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else. Wendell Berry
Alan Moore quote: "Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman...."
Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain...The black sheep of the family. Alan Moore
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth]..."
It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century’s war dead. Kim Stanley Robinson
In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven. Victor Hugo
In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane. Dean Koontz
Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when wishing apparently no longer led to anything, and Leigh-Cheri eventually named it Prince Charming after that son-of-a-bitch who never comes though. Tom Robbins
In the late twentieth century we consider solitude our natural condition. Mates divorce, and even friendship is diagnosed as a disorder - co-dependency. So the concept of living a life interlocked with another human is unthinkable Penn Jillette

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