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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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When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.
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Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.
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In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
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Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
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A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.
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In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person I create myself.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
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I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.
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One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.
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The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.
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We are ruled by quotations.
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The white race is the cancer of human history it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.
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There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.
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Ideas disturb the levelness of life
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The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.
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The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.
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The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.
Susan Sontag
People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.
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