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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
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Human Rights Activist
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New York City
New York
Susan Rosenblatt
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Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world
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One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not.
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What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up
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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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I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.
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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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Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.
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As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.
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Passion paralyzes good taste.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.
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Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.
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My skull is crammed with quotations.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.
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Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger danger is only a means to success.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
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Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous
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Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).
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The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.
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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
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