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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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Paintings invariably sum up photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.
Susan Sontag
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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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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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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The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.
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the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.
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Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
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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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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
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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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Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
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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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What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.
Susan Sontag
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan Sontag
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
Susan Sontag
The only interesting ideas are heresies
Susan Sontag
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
Susan Sontag
writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.
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