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Once Quotes by Susan Sontag
- A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.
- With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character…
- 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…
- Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its…
- I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in…
- Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.
- Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
- To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to…
More Once Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins