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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Feminist
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Human Rights Activist
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New York City
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Susan Rosenblatt
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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I want to save my soul, that timid wind.
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Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
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All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.
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Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.
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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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