“I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Southern, and it had many, many failings. I think I've gotten rid of most of the bad things in myself from that earlier age, but I don't adjust to the way things are progressing now.” IfsThinkingWorldWayWould BeAgeProgressFailingModernGrewGrew UpTunesBad ThingsSouthernSensibilityAnnoyedTexan Author:John Graves
“The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring as Sappho says, "More real than real, more gold than gold.” RealStatesFactsModernPoetSpringGoldStriveGreekSensibilityDrains Book:Classics Revisited Source: Classics Revisited
“One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.” WayHas BeensModernAmbitionTalesBridgesSensibilityGothicMy AmbitionVictorianGreat Author Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy.” ThinkingWritingDoeNightDifferencesModernPersonalityClubsFormerLatterSensibilityAffinityImmediacyLiterary WorksNight Club Author:Paul Horgan