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We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life. -- John Eaton
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. -- Sam Shepard
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story. -- Karen Kingsbury
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. -- Joseph Campbell
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie. -- Alvar Aalto
Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. -- Billy Joel
Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind. -- James Rosenquist
I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. -- Richard Powers
I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive. -- Leonard Baskin
My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books - books that are in some way beautiful, that are models of how to use the language, models of honest feeling, models of care. -- John Updike
The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command. -- Dallas Willard
Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life. -- Gore Vidal
My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music. -- Elliott Carter
Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time. -- DJ Spooky
Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges. -- Russell M. Nelson
I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness. -- James Hillman
People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference. -- Damien Hirst
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life. -- David Elliott
Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am? -- June Jordan
Happiness & Sadness are two contemporary stages in life. A wise man overcomes sadness with his wisdom, and a foolish man faces it with tears. -- Deepak Chandra
I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life. -- Jonathan Lethem
I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of my life. -- Carlos Miele
I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction. -- Alan Furst
I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character. -- Alex Kingston
I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street. -- Paz Vega
This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self. -- Lionel Trilling
[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928) -- Pierre Mac Orlan
All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real... -- Vijay Seshadri
I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life. -- Toni Morrison
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. -- Billy Joel

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