Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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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...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an...

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an...

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...

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...

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...

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

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...

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

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...

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

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

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

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

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...