• We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

  Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist 1933-2004
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. inconceivable
2. seemingly
3. destinies
4. banality
5. specters
6. rations

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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. by : Susan Sontag

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