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    Andrew Carnegie
    “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
    ― Andrew Carnegie
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    Susan Sontag
    “Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: art, art-criticism, criticism, critique, intelligence, interpretation, scholars, scholarship
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    Susan Sontag
    “Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor
    tags: depression, melancholy
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    Susan Sontag
    “I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. ”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “Art is seduction, not rape. ”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “The only interesting ideas are heresies.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
    tags: art, culture
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    Susan Sontag
    “...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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  • #11
    Quentin Tarantino
    “‎That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.”
    ― Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
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    Emilie Autumn
    “Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors...
    Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat...
    What then was music created for?
    Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves?
    I think I know.”
    ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
    tags: depression, disguise, masks, music, perfume, spices, voices
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: masks
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    Robert Bloch
    “Horror is the removal of masks.”
    ― Robert Bloch
    tags: horror, masks
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude
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    Charles Bukowski
    “being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Women
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: introspection, solitude
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: loneliness, secret-knowledge, secrets, solitude
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  • #19
    Albert Einstein
    “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: growing-older, solitude
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
    tags: 208, solitude
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    John Milton
    “Solitude sometimes is best society.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: companionship, privacy, solitude
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
    tags: heart, solitude, sorrow
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    Guy de Maupassant
    “Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms”
    ― Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
    tags: insanity, loneliness, solitude
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    Assegid Habtewold
    “When you are genuinely preoccupied in serving others using your talent and experience, doors that you have never knocked start to open up...”
    ― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
    tags: doors, experience, genuinely, knock, open, preoccupied, serving, talent
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    J.D. Salinger
    “That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: girls, holden
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    J.D. Salinger
    “It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: bluffing, confusion
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    J.D. Salinger
    “When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: cemetery, death, funeral-rites, holden
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: change, holden-caulfield, stasis
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    J.D. Salinger
    “It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
    tags: life
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