Singular Responses

Famous quotes containing the words singular and/or responses:

“though the fall cold

surrounds our warm bed, and though
by day we are singular and often lonely.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious—that is, a disease not understood—in an era in which medicine’s central premise is that all diseases can be cured.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)