"Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph."

-- Susan Sontag

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“An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.”
“I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights”
“Think of the undying glory that hangs around the ancient name of Africa and forget not that you are native-born American citizens, and as such, you are justly entitled to all the rights that are granted to the freest.”

Source : Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.48, Gale Cengage Learning
“Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful?”

Source : Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.269, Penguin
“You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.”
“[I want] a one-armed scientist ... [Who would not qualify his advice with 'on the other hand...']”
“No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.”
“Respecting differences is very difficult.”

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