Susan Sontag Quotes

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

Susan Sontag

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004

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Being from Boston, I think we have to get the 'Good Will Hunting' poster tattooed on our backs when we're like 16 or 17; it's just a rite of passage. That movie is so, so, so huge.

John Krasinski

GoodThinkHuntingWillBostonGet

People like the Bosch books because they like Harry Bosch, not because the plots are fantastic.

Michael Connelly

PeopleBecauseBooksLikeFantastic

I'm from New York, I'm 53, I have my moments when I'm a nice guy, and more frequently I have my moments where I'm a middle-aged aggravated person. For years I was always the nice guy, so in life I had to pretend to be the nice guy.

John Schneider

LifeNew YorkMomentsPersonNice

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Stephen King

LiveWinSometimesInsideRealUs

Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice.

Stevie Nicks

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I don't believe we ought to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation. If people are in a same-sex relationship, and they want their partner to be able to have health benefits or be designated as a beneficiary in your life insurance, there's no reason we shouldn't do that.

Liz Cheney

LifeRelationshipHealthPeopleWant

My abiding childhood memory is watching my uncle perform to thousands in Madison Square Garden. He wore a white suit and came down from the ceiling on a rope, and the crowd went crazy.

Little Louie Vega

ChildhoodMemoryCrazyUncleDown

If someone else made 'Up in the Air' or 'Thank You For Smoking' or 'Juno,' I would have wanted to rip their head off. I need that same sort of passion for every project I take on.

Jason Reitman

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Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood.

Allen Weinstein

GoalsNowOverWhateverClearly

We were always a middle-class family who took pride in our little set-up.

Ali Fazal

FamilyPrideAlwaysLittleWhoOur

Woody Allen asked me to improv once. I said no.

William Hurt

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I think I prefer writing books because the work of art begins and ends with you - it's easier to know if you're doing it right, as opposed to writing a play and then waiting around for somebody else to complete it.

Sheila Heti

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