"Time exists in order that everything doesnâ€™t happen all at onceâ€¦and space exists so that it doesnâ€™t all happen to you."

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Source : Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.214, Macmillan

Susan Sontag

#Order Quotes #Space Quotes

“I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I'm actually very dark and edgy. It's a weird dichotomy.”
“Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.”
“Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.”
“Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding thatâ€”in many realms, not just sexâ€”weâ€™re all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer.”

Source : Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.48, Vintage
“That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.”
“Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.”
“My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.”
“When a man is a Traveler, the world is his house & the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, & all the people are his family”

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