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A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Human Rights Activist
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New York City
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I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
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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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Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
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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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We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).
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Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.
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Desire has no history.
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.
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I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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