“Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.”

—  Susan Sontag , book In America

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American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933–2004

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