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Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.
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The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.
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And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.
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Experiences aren't pornographic only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.
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As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.
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Everything has changed and nothing is changed.
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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
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