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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#anyway #by the time #common #i #me

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#militants #only #signs #surrealism #thought

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#extinction #only #problems #solved #truly

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#juxtaposition #quotations #surrealist #taste

To photograph is to confer importance. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#importance #photograph

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Always desire to learn something useful. ↗

— Sophocles

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. ↗

— Sophocles

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