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What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?


Susan Block

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His lying is not contigent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your f...
SUSAN FORWARD Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to the...
SUSAN SONTAG Al forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...
SUSAN SONTAG American energy is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chro...
SUSAN SONTAG The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of A...
SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intelle...
SUSAN SONTAG The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own expe...
SUSAN SONTAG In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art ...
SUSAN SONTAG Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the ra...
SUSAN SONTAG Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading towa...
SUSAN SONTAG I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on...
SUSAN SARANDON What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.
SUSAN MAUSHART When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.
SUSAN FALUDI Ah, Macy Joleen O'James, I love you. More than I ever knew it was possible to love someone. I want t...
SUSAN ANDERSEN Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...
SUSAN SONTAG The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAG She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.
SUSAN WIGGS Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio...
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