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The only thing that matters in the end is your own survival. It's what humans and cockroaches are best at.


Susan Ee

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SUSAN SONTAG Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAG Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.
SUSAN RABIN It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
SUSAN SONTAG In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized,...
SUSAN SONTAG The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and...
SUSAN SONTAG Taste has no system and no proofs.
SUSAN SONTAG The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture...
SUSAN SONTAG One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves....
SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoo...
SUSAN ERTZ To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.
SUSAN BLOW Feel the fear and do it anyway.
SUSAN JEFFERS What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
SUSAN CAIN The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o...
SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
SUSAN ERTZ Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wr...
SUSAN RICE Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly...
SUSAN MINOT If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sur...
SUSAN RICE Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I ...
SUSAN ORLEAN I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kind...
SUSAN SONTAG Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide som...
SUSAN LIEBERMAN I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because...
SUSAN WIGGS Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some oth...
SUSAN ESTRICH You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special th...
SUSAN EGAN Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of cou...
SUSAN GEORGE Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAG