• The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

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

1. contemplative
2. admiration
3. difficult
4. because
5. feeling
6. passive

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The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood. by : Susan Sontag

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