Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel … - Susan Sontag

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Hamlet is a little daunting.

Susan Sontag

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid. . . Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

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The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneits ideologies and inventionswhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.

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. . . what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

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