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“Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.”

Difficult Modern Subjects Absence Costumes Wretchedness

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.”

Form Difficult Interesting Modern Advertising Most Interesting Advertisements

Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

“The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.”

Reason Poetry Difficult Wife Modern Poet Poetry Is Modern Poetry

Author:Wendy Cope

“The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.”

Want Long America Nations Difficult Cities Sun Modern Century Western Tales Warmth Southern Epic 20th Century Sweeping

Author:Tom Brokaw

“We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we have to do this, we have to have a half-hour of yoga, an hour of meditation, 2 hours of this, and then 12 hours of work and non-stop electronic gadgets, gizmos etc. etc., and then go home and take care of the family, and then take the children to wherever, and what tends to happen is we do way too much. The society does way too much. One of the greatest things in healing is try for just one day to do nothing. Very difficult.”

“Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.”

Difficult Modern Reader Ancient

Author:Joanne Harris

“A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.”

Men May Doe Difficult Modern Admire Reform Sweeping Modern Man

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.”

Culture Difficult Black Modern Europe Admire Ancestor Splits Modern Life Inner Life Equilibrium Unstable African Culture

Author:Leopold Sedar Senghor

“I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.”