Echo Extinction

Famous quotes containing the words echo and/or extinction:

    “To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking—and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.”
    —Maurice Blanchot (b. 1907)

    “The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)