Postmodernism Quotes

Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end...

…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking fo...

So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up bein...

For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a p...

I realize then that the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value...

The radical hermeneutic of suspicion that characterizes all of post-modernity is essentially nihilis...

Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else a...

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in th...

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence...

In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big ...

You’re chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let i...

So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with bea...

So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with bea...

So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with bea...

Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to...

Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most...

The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-mi...

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don't really mean what I say." So what does irony as a cul...

The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of p...

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see...

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belo...

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers...

Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going—people...

To him, they looked like shadows that his wife had left behind. Size 7 shadows of his wife hung ther...