“So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.” I CanFictionViolenceCrimePainfulContemporaryObsessedCrime Fiction Author:Donna Leon
“I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn't operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it's actually also true - if I want to appear in public I want to look my best. If I'm onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.” IfsWantLooksKindI CanReasonUsedClothesJokesContemporarySuitsDecentMotorTrousers Author:Bill Nighy
“An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon.” TryingI CanFactsHelpingWould BePastMy OwnAcceptingClaimsFoolishContemporaryPainterPhenomenon Author:Joseph Plaskett
“Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine, they have found it impossible to discover any logically satisfactory evidence warranting one person in believing that there exist minds other than his own. I can witness what your body does, but I cannot witness what your mind does, and my pretensions to infer from what your body does to what your mind does all collapse, since the premises for such inferences are either inadequate or unknowable.” MindBelievePersonsDoeI CanProblemBodyFoundImpossibleEvidenceMachinesPhilosopherYour BodyGhostContemporaryWitnessCollapseDogmaPremisesInadequatePretensionInference Book:The Concept of Mind Source: The Concept of Mind