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All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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We are ruled by quotations.
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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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Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.
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I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
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Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
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That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.
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Rules of taste enforce structures of power.
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Experiences aren't pornographic only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.
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Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the religious imagination. To try to make a fresh way of talking at the most serious, ardent, and enthusiastic level, heading off the religious encapsulation, is one of the primary intellectual tasks of future thought.
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The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.
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Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
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The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
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Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.
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art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become art, when it is part of the past. In this normative sense, a 'contemporary' work of art would be a contradiction - except so far as we can, in the present, assimilate the present to the past.
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