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Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.
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 pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
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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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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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Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.
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