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Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.
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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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Rules of taste enforce structures of power.
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Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
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Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.
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The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.
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Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art
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The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.
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There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
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The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
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Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.
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Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''
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With more people, there are more voices to tune out.
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Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.
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She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.
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