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Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures
Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Essayist
Feminist
Film Critic
Film Director
Historian
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
New York City
New York
Susan Rosenblatt
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The only interesting ideas are heresies
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Desire has no history.
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... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.
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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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In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person I create myself.
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Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
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It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.
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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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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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People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.
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The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.
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