I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between pe…

Susan Sontag
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence. ✨ Susan Sontag (2012). As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980, p.76, Macmillan
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence. ✨ Susan Sontag (2012). As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980, p.76, Macmillan

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