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“Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.”

Susan Sontag · Intelligence

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Susan Sontag

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Funny

Susan Sontag

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Fear

Susan Sontag

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Beauty

Susan Sontag

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

History