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Jean-Francois Lyotard Quotes

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: August 10, 1924 - April 21, 1998

Topics

Work End Become First Modern Only

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Joe Eszterhas

People Marketing Over Been Taken

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.

Jesmyn Ward

Myself Child People Me Ideas Want

The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.

John Burroughs

Heart Light Body Human Cheerful

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

Maya Lin

Words You Goal Down Editing Need

I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'

Alvaro Enrigue

Wonder Way What If Write Historical

If I'm going to be grinding, then I want to coach. If I'm not going to be coaching, I want to be semi-retired, at least.

Stan Van Gundy

Coaching Want Coach Going Grinding

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

Robert Benchley

Family Death Nothing Try Real Out

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

Mickey Rourke

Love Football School High School

Death is the final wake-up call.

Douglas Horton

Death Final Call Wake-Up Call

If I commit to pros, I really got to stick to it, and I think it was a good decision.

Denis Shapovalov

Good Decision Think Stick Commit

No one has all the answers, so whatever a woman who has the BRCA mutation chooses to do requires courage and an element of faith. And a lot of love and support.

Dean Ornish

Love Faith Courage Woman Support

I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.

Christopher Walken

Believe I Believe Lucky I Believe In