Quote by Susan Sontag
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. – Susan Sontag

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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene — in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses. – Susan Sontag

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. – Susan Sontag

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Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, theres the opportunity seeds of great success. Theyre not miles apart. So if theyre that close together, and if youre really working, youre always gonna have that likelihood that somethings not going to work. – Peter Guber

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Failures a natural part of life. – John Malkovich

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Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways its better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life. – Michael Crawford

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Theres only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and thats if we quit. – Craig Breedlove

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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast Table

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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel. – Michael Morpurgo

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Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. – Bruno Bettelheim

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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. – John Dewey

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