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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Feminist
Film Critic
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Human Rights Activist
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New York City
New York
Susan Rosenblatt
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When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.
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Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and Japan, the break with the past has been particularly traumatic.
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I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.
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To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
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Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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I want to save my soul, that timid wind.
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With more people, there are more voices to tune out.
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What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up
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The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.
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Art is seduction, not rape.
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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
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Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
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