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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Essayist
Feminist
Film Critic
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Human Rights Activist
Journalist
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New York City
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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
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Passion paralyzes good taste.
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The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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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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It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.
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Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.
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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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Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.
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You can always be quoted.
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When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.
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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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I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.
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Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
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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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One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.
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Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.
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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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I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.
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