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Different Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the context…
- The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an…
- Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad,…
- Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,” with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive…
- As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To…
- Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space.…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. — Rowan Atkinson
- What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough