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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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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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A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.
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whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.
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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 destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality the real object is often experienced as a letdown.
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Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.
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When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.
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By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.
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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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Passion paralyzes good taste.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.
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Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.
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The only interesting ideas are heresies
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Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
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The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.
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Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our own everyday fantasies, the fantastic nature of which we don't perceive. We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as a fantasy when it is not our own.
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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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