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The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.
Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally violent areseen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways. Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with glitter in his hair.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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