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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. – Susan Sontag

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Truth
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Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. – Susan Sontag

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Minorities
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To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. – Susan Sontag

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Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. – Shahrukh Khan

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. – Proverb

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Success is never final, but failure can be. – Bill Parcells

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I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. – Jeff Tweedy

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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. – Abraham Kuyper

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