All Susan Sontag Quotes
Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.
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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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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
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I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
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Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
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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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"Camp" is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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