Susan Sontag Quotes
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility.
Quotes to Explore
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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What we do as comics can be a service to people. It can make them laugh and take their mind off their problems for a few minutes.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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An interview is like a minefield.
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Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility.
