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Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.
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War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.
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Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.
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Courage is morally neutral.
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My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.
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