The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.Susan Sontag
It's fantastic knowing you're going to die it really makes having priorities and trying to follow them very real to you.
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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.
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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism.
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What we need is to use what we have.
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