Susan Sontag Quotes

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Susan Sontag

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

Jimi Hendrix

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I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

Steve Kazee

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I saw Ray Charles at Massey Hall.

Robbie Robertson

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Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.

Rob Lowe

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Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.

Michel Faber

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From 2002 to the end of his presidency, George W. Bush routinely was accused by the Left of 'creating chaos:' chaos in Iraq, chaos in Afghanistan, chaos in the Muslim world, chaos among our allies.

Monica Crowley

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I'd heard a lot about Dubai before I first visited and couldn't wait to go.

Mo Farah

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We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.

Jay DeMarcus

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Each time I arrived in a new city, I'd get lost in the streets and photograph everything that looked interesting, taking nearly a thousand photographs every day. After each day of shooting, I'd select 30 or 40 of my favorite photographs and post them on Facebook. I named the albums after my first impression of each city.

Brandon Stanton

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I think Americans are very patriotic.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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My career got off to a very shaky start when I dropped out of school at the age of 18. Despite my lack of academic credentials, I got a job as a fashion assistant at 'Harper's & Queen.'

Anna Wintour

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I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent.

Willie Aames

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