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A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.
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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
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Many things in the world have not been named and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.
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The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.
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Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.
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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.
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In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.
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Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.
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When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.
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What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -
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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
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The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to the serious. One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.
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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.
Susan Sontag
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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