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Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.
Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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New York City
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The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.
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