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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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Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art
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The happening operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.
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God, living is enormous!
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.
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Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures
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Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
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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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I have been told that I am a natural feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
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Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is sexier than communism.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Paintings invariably sum up photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.
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The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to the serious. One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.
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The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain of one's sex.
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Everything has changed and nothing is changed.
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Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.
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All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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