Quote by Susan Sontag
A familys photograph album is generally about the extended family

A familys photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. – Susan Sontag

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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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Excess
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. – Susan Sontag

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Death
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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. – Susan Sontag

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Fantasy
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Family
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Because of my own familys service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars. – Camille Paglia

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Family

My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes. – Emily Deschanel

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Family

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. – Charles Dudley Warner

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Family

It never occurred to me that I wouldnt go to college and have a career – as well as a family – of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible. – Dee Dee Myers

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Family

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Time will tell us what we did and didnt do. – Harvey Fierstein

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Time

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Home

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. – Mark Twain

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God

Some have been thought brave because they didnt have the courage to run away. – Proverb

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Bravery