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The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.
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The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.
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