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Susan Sontag

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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
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MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan ...
CAITLIN MORAN She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Susan Sontag was a great literary artist,"a fearless and original thinker, ever valiant for truth, a...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Fami...
CAITLIN MORAN Alzheimer's is a disease for which there is no effective treatment whatsoever. To be clear, ther...
DAVID PERLMUTTER I would be grateful if my name wasn't considered for a role whose profile and significance does not ...
MARIO MONTI [About Susan Sontag] Her quest for meaning, for significance was endless. She described life more as...
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t...
SALLY MANN The system is so awash in money that I don't think there's any danger that any side will be going in...
CHARLES COOK 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society ma...
NAOMI WOLF A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.
LAUREL LEA A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility
LAUREL LEE Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered t...
THOMAS SZASZ About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I...
SUE GRAFTON This would be an absolutely novel treatment. Given what a big problem brain trauma is in society, an...
JAMES BAUMGARTNER The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise fo...
EDWARD SAPIR Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.
BETH BROOKE The belief in causality is metaphysical. It is nothing but a typical metaphysical hypostatization of...
KARL R. POPPER Love is a disease of the heart...in the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill yo...
BETSY JOHNSON Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life...
BRUCE FEILER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ...
GERMANY KENT PERIOWAVE(TM) is a novel non-antibiotic approach for eliminating the bacteria associated with period...
CAROLYN CROSS The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from ...
JIM DOYLE The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individua...
GRAYSON KIRK Monitoring depression is very important. Often people come in for treatment when they are starting t...
DR. DAVID L. DUNNER We are focusing now on [applications] that are relevant to disease detection and treatment. The tech...
MICHAEL STRANO I envision devices that detect disease much earlier than conventional detection methods. It could ev...
MICHAEL SIMPSON Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER This is an inquisitive age, and if we insist on piling up beyond a certain height knowledge which is...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compou...
JOEL FUHRMAN Love is a serious mental disease.
PLATO Don't try to bring about darkness on a Monday Don't let a Tuesday go thirsty Don't show temper to a ...
APURVA GAGLANI I think at this point, the only person that's truly going to be able to help Susan is Susan.
JUDY CORNETT The more important thing, though, for disease surveillance is to have movement information.
JAY TRUITT Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
WANGARI MAATHAI The least costly treatment for any illness is lethal medication.
WALTER DELLINGER The author would like to acknowledge: That disease and its treatment are
JOHN GREEN The disease is produced by influences which act similar to the healing process and the disease condi...
HIPPOCRATES As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrin...
CATHARINE ESTHER BEECHER As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrin...
CATHARINE BEECHER Every minute counts in stroke. There is treatment for stroke, effective treatment, but this has to b...
DR. YOUSEF MOHAMMAD The prospect of finding a safe and effective new approach to both prevention and treatment of Alzhei...
GREGORY COLE Prevention is very broad. It is not just prevention of cancer development, but includes advances in ...
BERNARD LEVIN Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which i...
LYTTON STRACHEY There are sectors of the world awash in money and venture capital, ... But if you are a woman with a...
BILL EDWARDS Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds t...
WILLIAM JAMES We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN We have long assumed that if we educate patients and make them an active partner in the treatment of...
CARLOS SANCHEZ Under the current medicare system of our country, it is not rare for a person who catches a major di...
LI GUOAN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM And I knew that it was possible he wasn't entirely right for me, but I also knew, in some way...
CATHERINE LACEY We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and t...
PAUL DUDLEY WHITE Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest so...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Health is a condition in which one is unaware of an underlying disease or a developing disease of a ...
DR HITESH C SHETH Can you tell me which is the most effective treatment for smallpox?
LEON HARRIS One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
ARTHUR ASHE All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such
MAHATMA GANDHI Vertex's cystic fibrosis research program has yielded two innovative approaches for the treatment of...
JOSHUA BOGER Whose importance is most important?
LESLIE MIKLOSY To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
HONORE DE BALZAC Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet...
HENRY FORD People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for ot...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH The athletes should not be sharing water bottles, ... That's very important to cut down on the sprea...
BETH ERICKSON The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught ...
ASHLEY MONTAGU There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
HIPPOCRATES One flower says more than 1,000 words. It's very important to know what the significance is.
YOLANDA CRUZ Very often the animal models that exist for a particular disease really don't authentically replicat...
EVAN SNYDER Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.
DEEPAK CHOPRA We believe strongly in transparency and accountability, which is why Teach For America encourages ri...
WENDY KOPP For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind...
ERWIN SCHRODINGER This trial is starting to show we can offer pancreatic cancer patients precious extra time with a ne...
DAVID CUNNINGHAM Love is a disease which cannot be cured by medicinal herbs.
VIKRANT PARSAI The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH The future of radiation tends to be what we call stereotactic: radiation, which focuses on the tumor...
DAVID GREENWALD A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN The dollar is responding to long-run factors. We're in a very advantageous economic position and the...
JASON BONANCA We are pleased that the NOGA® System was able to play such an important role in exploring this new ...
MARK MARTIN Pearl was hurring around my apartment, sniffing everything, including Rich Beaumont and Patty Giacom...
ROBERT B. PARKER [The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerfu...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU (CHARLES-LOUIS DE SECONDAT) Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confine...
F.A. HAYEK It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike...
CAROL ANN DUFFY Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.
CAT POWER Our data highlight a potentially important gender bias, in that fewer women, despite being eligible,...
GRACE LIN It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individua...
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SUSAN SONTAG The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations...
SUSAN SONTAG [Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A ...
SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
SUSAN SONTAG The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste...
SUSAN SONTAG Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
SUSAN SONTAG What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature
SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual ...
SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou...
SUSAN SONTAG My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,'
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them
SUSAN SONTAG The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of...
SUSAN SONTAG Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. ...
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