Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various...

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...

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

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

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful...

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful...

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of...

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of...

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in...

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in...

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

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

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than...

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than...

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of...

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...