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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.
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I certainly identify myself as a feminist.
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Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures
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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 past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
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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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The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past.
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All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.
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I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.
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All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.
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As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.
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A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.
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The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
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Most of my reading is rereading.
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Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.
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