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Susan Sontag13 quotes
Courage is as contagious as fear. — Susan Sontag · 2003Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals. — Susan Sontag · 1973Get up quickly-just switch on the white light of the will. — Susan Sontag · 1973Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism-victimless collecting, as it were... In a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments. — Susan Sontag · 1974Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. — Susan Sontag · 1966Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular kind of style. It is the love of the exaggerated, the "off," of things-being-what-they-are-not... The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful. — Susan Sontag · 1964All 13 quotes →Ray Bradbury8 quotes
I discovered me in the library. — Ray Bradbury · 2010Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. — Ray Bradbury · 1990I have several walls in several rooms of my house covered with the snowstorm of rejections, but they didn't realize what a strong person I was, I persevered and wrote a thousand more dreadful short stories, which were rejected in turn. — Ray Bradbury · 2002There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. — Ray Bradbury · 1950If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. — Ray Bradbury · 1953The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so. — Ray Bradbury · 2002All 8 quotes →Charles Bukowski2 quotes
What matters most is how well you walk through the fire. — Charles Bukowski · 1994When things are very very bad, a drink is the only magic cheap thing left to give you the dream, to make you feel good for a moment. — Charles Bukowski · 1981Beck1 quote
I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me? — Beck · 1993Buddy DeSylva1 quote
Look for the silver lining
Whene'er a cloud
Appears in the blue. — Buddy DeSylva · 1920Harry Hay1 quote
We have to be people who set each other free. — Harry Hay · 1998James Turrell1 quote
Art is a completed pass. You don't just throw it out into the world-someone has to catch it. — James Turrell · 2013John Cage1 quote
Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? — John Cage · 1961John Ehrlichman1 quote
It'll play in Peoria. — John Ehrlichman · 1969Marilyn Monroe1 quote
That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. — Marilyn Monroe · 1962Monica Lewinsky1 quote
I would just like to say that no one ever asked me to lie and I was never promised a job for my silence. And that I'm sorry. I'm really sorry for everything that's happened. And I hate Linda Tripp. — Monica Lewinsky · 1998Robert Shapiro1 quote
Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck. — Robert Shapiro · 1995Rodney King1 quote
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? — Rodney King · 1992Sally Ride1 quote
Weightlessness is a great equalizer. — Sally Ride · 1984The 5th Dimension1 quote
When the moon is in the seventh house,
And Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide the planets,
And love will steer the stars;
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius. — The 5th Dimension · 1967The Doors1 quote
What have they done to the earth, yeah?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn,
And tied her with fences and dragged her down.
I hear a very gentle sound,
With your ear down to the ground
We want the world and we want it
We want the world and we want it
Now. — The Doors · 1967