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Susan Sontag: Surrealism is a...

Susan Sontag: Surrealism is a...

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is...

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Susan Sontag: The discovery of...

Susan Sontag: The discovery of...

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious...

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Susan Sontag: The truth is...

Susan Sontag: The truth is...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there...

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Susan Sontag: Volume depends precisely...

Susan Sontag: Volume depends precisely...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year,...

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Susan Sontag: Life is not...

Susan Sontag: Life is not...

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

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Susan Sontag: Science fiction films...

Susan Sontag: Science fiction films...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of...

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Susan Sontag: The becoming of...

Susan Sontag: The becoming of...

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Source:...

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Helen Rowland: Failing to be...

Helen Rowland: Failing to be...

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want...

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Helen Rowland: When a man...

Helen Rowland: When a man...

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his...

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Helen Rowland: When two people...

Helen Rowland: When two people...

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand one another, but a sign that they...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Love is a...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Love is a...

Love is a force. It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces. It is a power, like money or...

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Simone de Beauvoir: What is an...

Simone de Beauvoir: What is an...

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Source: La Femme rompue.
-- Simone de...

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Helen Keller: Science may have...

Helen Keller: Science may have...

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of...

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Helen Keller: The highest result...

Helen Keller: The highest result...

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Source: 'Optimism'
-- Helen...

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Helen Keller: Toleration is the...

Helen Keller: Toleration is the...

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself...

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Dorothy Parker: He has a...

Dorothy Parker: He has a...

He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses...

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Dorothy Parker: This is on...

Dorothy Parker: This is on...

This is on me.

Source: Suggested epitaph for her own tombstone; in You Might As...

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Dorothy Parker: Outspoken by whom?...

Dorothy Parker: Outspoken by whom?...

Outspoken by whom?

Source: When told that she was very outspoken; attributed.
--...

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Susan B Anthony: Cautious, careful people,...

Susan B Anthony: Cautious, careful people,...

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations. . . can never effect a...

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Emily Dickinson: The Possible's slow...

Emily Dickinson: The Possible's slow...

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.


Source: In Webster's...

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