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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Feminist
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Human Rights Activist
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New York City
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Susan Rosenblatt
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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past because we have survived.
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The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
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The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
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Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.
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I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.
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Taste has no system and no proofs.
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Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.
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Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.
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The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.
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Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.
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Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.
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Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
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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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The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.
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I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive.
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the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.
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Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is sexier than communism.
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We are ruled by quotations.
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I'm more cautious about what I write.
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Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.
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