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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Essayist
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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The white race is the cancer of human history.
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whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.
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Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.
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I love to read the way people love to watch television.
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Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.
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Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.
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That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
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If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.
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Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
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