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Needs Quotes by Susan Sontag
- [T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style…
- Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what…
- The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with…
- Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind…
- One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.
- What we need is to use what we have.
- Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
- 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…
- What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love…
- My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.
- Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything…
- Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that…
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
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- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. — Desi Arnaz