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Susan Sontag

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RYAN HANSEN She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS She was indomitable. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Catastrophe can be turned into an advantage, just as an advantage with incorrect application can be ...
STEVEN REDHEAD [About Susan Sontag] Her quest for meaning, for significance was endless. She described life more as...
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT There's no conduct that can be described as reckless in this record.
ROGER SIMPSON Now she is ignoring me as first

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DEYTH BANGER Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
GAIL SHEEHY This statement can be described only as utter rubbish.
SIZWE KUPELO Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties
GAIL SHEEHY Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
SUSAN SONTAG ...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
MARKUS ZUSAK Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY My neighbors and I are facing circumstances that can best be described as deplorable.
LAVOYGER DURHAM Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society ma...
NAOMI WOLF You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in ...
KEN ROBINSON Weather can change the mechanical nature of the airplane, can change anything, so you have to be rea...
RANDALL HARRIS Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
MARIAN KEYES Time can be described as an instrument of closeness to darkness.
PABLO D. RODRIGUEZ Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
MARCEL DUCHAMP Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight
LAURIE NADEL It's economically illiterate. A degree in classics or philosophy can be as valuable as anything else...
BORIS JOHNSON I'm here tonight, well past my bedtime, in order to be a witness to history. I wanted to be here the...
JACK RAYMOND This is manifesting itself as what could be a major humanitarian catastrophe of historic nature.
NICHOLAS HAAN That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN The surrounding nature is the best erudite master to teach us the basics of living.
ANUJ SOMANY Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS They look up at me and see a rich lady in maternity clothes. They don't realize I am one of them.
JODI PICOULT I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t...
SALLY MANN American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be descr...
CHAD HARBACH It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only li...
CORNELL WOOLRICH Write as much as you can. Read as much as you can. Use the library and the internet carefully for re...
ENOCK MAREGESI Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Fami...
CAITLIN MORAN You can be anything you want to be, as long as you believe in yourself.
MICHELLE WORTHINGTON You realize the limits of your body. The thing you don't want to do is freak out and swim hard. At s...
CAN OSTEN Kurtuluş Savaşı yılları... Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin kuruluşunda emeği geçen ama gölgede kal...
CAN DüNDAR Divers have found there is no air left in the holds of the ship. That means sea water has filled the...
CAN KARACA They must be all dead, if there is anybody else in those holds.
CAN KARACA There is little hope to find them alive.
CAN KARACA Bi sen eksiktin ayışığı
Gümüş bir tüy dikmek için manzaraya!
CAN YüCEL Just as you can be for health care reform without having any animosity toward nurses, you can be in ...
IRA MEHLMAN No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.'
CONAN O'BRIEN It's been described as a spine-tingling, steadily engrossing drama, with all the tension and suspens...
GREG CONRAD Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
NICK FLYNN As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about ...
JAMES PAYN Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan ...
CAITLIN MORAN Any iota of something, anything, everything can be just a delusion, can be fake, can be a front, can...
ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR Those commentaries can be seen as males treating females as the 'out' group.
KATHY KAISER If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art...
JOHN PEEL Susan Sontag was a great literary artist,"a fearless and original thinker, ever valiant for truth, a...
SALMAN RUSHDIE The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of ...
ADAM RICKITT History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.
CLARICE STASZ STOLL History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women
CLARICE STASZ STOLL I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be...
ADA YONATH As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you c...
TOM HANKS You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.
EDWARD BLAKE As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE We can do custom beans. We can do as little as two pounds or 2,000 pounds or anything in between.
JEANETTE BAYSA Know and believe that anything is possible.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Everything that can be seen as offensive to others, whether chants or a product, are banned in the s...
FRANK HUIZINGA It's become clear (the practice) can be abused, as we've seen in some recent cases.
CLAIRE BUCHAN I believe that beauty is something that can be felt, inasmuch as it can be seen, deep below sight's ...
TRACEY BOND A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no pol...
THOMAS SOWELL The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experimen...
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attentio...
ROBERT QUILLEN If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attent...
THEODOR REIK As long as the reasoning behind this is for public safety and is not seen as anything other than tha...
ROBERT COX To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You can be all that you want to be.
Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy ...
WILKIE COLLINS History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritu...
THOMAS CARLYLE I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Gu...
FRANK BLACK It's up to you to be anything you want. This should make you sober
SOTONYE ANGA Interruptions can be viewed as sources of irritation or opportunities for service, as moments lost o...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be describ...
KEITH O'BRIEN Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.
SUSAN WIGGS The beauty of Love is that it can be possessed individually as well as in Union. You can love even i...
ASHISH SOPHAT In a fast (changing) political environment, anything can happen. We will take a collective decision....
DHARAM SINGH Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you c...
EVELYN GLENNIE Beauty seen in the eyes of a Beholder of Faith, can be seen as a Disease in the eyes of the Unacknow...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. It...
TERRY EAGLETON The gruesome attack can only be described as dastardly and cowardly. Its perpetrators deserve the se...
RONALD ZAMORA As far as style goes, I gravitate toward anything that is effortlessly chic. I don't wanna look ...
EVE The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can...
ANNE FRANK People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
RUSSEL HONORE Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals,...
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN Insurers are working as hard as they can to get these claims settled as quickly as they can and as f...
CAROLYN GORMAN As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.
KATARINA BIVALD We appear to be heading out of BRACC with quite a few more aircraft and people that we had heading i...
JAMES SAXTON Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as w...
MICHAEL LEUNIG She described the children in her chronological notes as being happy. She described them as being cl...
KATHLEEN KEARNEY Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorro...
SAPPHO It can be seen as a positive sign that vigorous corporate restructuring is underway. But the negativ...
KUNIHIRO HATAE Learn, relearn and outlearn.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

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[Speech upon being awa...
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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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