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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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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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. – Susan Sontag

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I have always been very obsessed with time. Times passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone. – John Barton

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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. – James Madison

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Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. – Elizabeth Bowen

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It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze. – Andre Rieu

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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. – Samuel Butler

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. – Source Unknown

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