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Less Quotes by Susan Sontag
- It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.
- While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less…
- Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.
- In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
- It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious…
- The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather…
- Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and…
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- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. — Jane Austen
- If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. — Jane Austen