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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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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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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. – Susan Sontag

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Ive also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create. – Yousuf Karsh

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No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. – Anna Pavlova

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Im a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really. – Leighton Meester

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It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. – Jenny Holzer

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