To the militant, identity is everything.
Susan Sontag.
“One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.”
“Alone, alone. I am alone I ache Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, Im here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT.”
“I am scared, numbed from the marital wars - that deadly, deadening combat which is the opposite, the antithesis of the sharp painful struggles of lovers. Lovers fight with knives and whips, husband...”
“I have loved people passionately whom I wouldn't have slept with for anything, but I think that's something else. That's friendship -- love, which can be a tremendously passionate emotion, and it c...”
“I dont care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces intelligence.”
“Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in a capitalist society, a society that increasingly restricts the scope and credibility of appeals to ethical principle, in which it is thought foo...”
“War is what happens when language fails.”
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”