Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been -- what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal -- needs to be protected from people.


Susan Sontag

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Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
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You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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So this is going to be drill!?
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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once
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Because the show has such a high profile, people want to read too much into what I consider to be no...
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Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
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Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and rece...
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She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. [About Susan Sontag]
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We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
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People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection an...
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I needed to be in nature.
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Such is the nature of people: they regret that what was, although it wasn't even nice, because they ...
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How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
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I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t...
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The American people need to be told what could have been done to prevent 3,000 people from losing th...
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 ...
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She was indomitable. [About Susan Sontag]
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What sweeter gift from nature has fallen to the lot of man than his children?
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The nature of Hong Kong is that it needs overseas recruitment. It's a small city and a very transien...
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Not everyone has the time to be normal.
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We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature ...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON
So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and tr...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
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We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
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You have to be careful (in accusing people of taking bribes), because sometimes what people perceive...
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of ta...
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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from now on, the only people allowed through security with guns would be active law enforcement offi...
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We known ourselves to be made from this earth.We know this earth is made from our bodies.For we see ...
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Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them...
GERMANY KENT
To be real is to be who you are according to the purpose which God wants you to accomplish but not t...
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Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
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If the island is not protected from the fury of nature, it will disappear in the next 20-25 years.
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And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from t...
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He always seemed to know just what I needed, just when I needed it. If we weren’t in love, then ho...
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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He has an ideological belief that endangered species should not be protected.
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I have learned that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regar...
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Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
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stop looking for job, create one.
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People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
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To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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The laws on the books give the impression that people have somewhere to turn and they'll be protecte...
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Be what Nature ...
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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What Charlie did was facilitate and pay people who were going to help people exercise their franchis...
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When people think they deserve what they have not worked for, it appeals to the lower nature of man.
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You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE
You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI
You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
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Some people just needed to be stolen from.
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SUSAN SONTAG
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...
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It's fantastic knowing you're going to die; it really makes having priorities and trying to follow t...
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is ...
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The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged,...
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The Way We Live Now
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Of course the movies are going to be the more visible, more high profile, for the simple reason that...
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In the final analysis, ''style'' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of styli...
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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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With more people, there are more voices to tune out.
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
SUSAN SONTAG
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "vi...
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Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to det...
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The aestheticizing tendency of photography is such that the medium which conveys distress ends by ne...
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It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking...
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But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybo...
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Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled re...
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It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other pe...
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One feature of the usual script for plague: the disease invariably comes from somewhere else. The na...
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The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations...
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[Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A ...
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Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
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The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste...
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
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What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature
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What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual ...
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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou...
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,'
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them
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The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of...
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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. ...
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