The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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...

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

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 standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by...

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art...

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

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...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

To photograph is to confer importance.

To photograph is to confer importance.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

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...

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

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