Look, what I want is to be fully present in my life - to be really where you are, contemporary with yourself in your life, giving full attention to t… - Susan Sontag

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Look, what I want is to be fully present in my life - to be really where you are, contemporary with yourself in your life, giving full attention to the world, which includes you. You are not the world, the world is not identical to you, but you're in it and paying attention to it. That's what a writer does - a writer pays attention to the world.

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About Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag (16 January 1933 – 28 December 2004) was an American essayist, literary critic, cultural theorist, and political activist.

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Alternative Names: Susan Rosenblatt Susan Lee Sontag Susan Lee Rosenblatt
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شخصان مُكبّلان إلى بعض قرب كومة روث، يجب ألا يتشاجرا، فهما سيجعلان كومة الروث، تزداد علواً فقط بضعة إنشات، سيكون عليهما العيش مع رائحة نتانتهما تحت أنفيهما

To have a museum chronicling the great crime that was African slavery in the United States of America would be to acknowledge that the evil was here. Americans prefer to picture the evil that was there, and from which the United States-a unique nation, one without any certifiably wicked leaders throughout its entire history-is exempt. That this country, like every other country, has its tragic past does not sit well with the founding, and still all-powerful belief in American exceptionalism.

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