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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.
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writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.
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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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A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.
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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
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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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I certainly identify myself as a feminist.
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To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.
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Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.
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Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.
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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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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
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War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.
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The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.
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'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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To photograph is to confer importance.
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Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.
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