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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
Author
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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Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
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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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A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.
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One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.
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Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.
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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.
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Experiences aren't pornographic only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.
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It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.
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I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.
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Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.
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the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.
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That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.
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The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute
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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
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I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all
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Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.
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AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
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What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.
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I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.
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Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.
Susan Sontag