The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAG10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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How boring just to be a body.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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