If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as …

Susan Sontag
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If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories. ✨ Susan Sontag (2007). At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches, p.147, Macmillan
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