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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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Susan Rosenblatt
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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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...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier and when the poet self dies, the person dies.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content.
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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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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.
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One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.
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The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.
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Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.
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The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.
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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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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.
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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 best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
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In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.
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To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.
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In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person I create myself.
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