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    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
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    “I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
    ― Michael Crichton
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    Susan Sontag
    “To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
    tags: hit, sages, thinking, violence
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    Susan Sontag
    “Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor
    tags: depression, melancholy
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    Susan Sontag
    “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: art, art-criticism, criticism, critique, intelligence, interpretation, scholars, scholarship
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    Susan Sontag
    “The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”
    ― Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
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    Susan Sontag
    “I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all”
    ― Susan Sontag
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