Quote by Susan Sontag
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Volume depends precisely on the writers having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. – Susan Sontag

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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. – Susan Sontag

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Science
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I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. – Susan Sontag

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Equality
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. – Susan Sontag

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Beauty
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This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. – William Law

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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. – Gustave Flaubert

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alone

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I dont go alone. – John Dingell

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alone

I dont like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because Im an obsessed mixer and I cant leave it alone. – David Friedman

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. – George Bernard Shaw

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If we were meant to be nude, we would have been born that way. – Author Unknown

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You cant allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, Merry Christmas? Give me a break. If people dont like it, yeah, they can go do something else. – Benjamin Carson

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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. – Khalil Gibran

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