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“What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.”

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John Cheever

John Cheever was an American novelist renowned for his short stories, which often focused on the lives and moral dilemmas of the middle class. His writing style was concise and profound, and he had a significant impact on 20th-century American literature. more

“In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.”

Has Beens Energy Space New York Particular Shame Train Prepared Inches Rude Subway Advertisements Legitimacy Graffiti Tattooed

Book:Myths & memories

Source: Myths & memories

“All isms end in fascism.”

Ends Politics Fascism Isms

Author:Gilbert Adair

“Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.”

“Tis not for mortals always to be blest.”

Blessing Mortals

Book:The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations

Source: The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations

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