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«My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,'»
«Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
catastrophe, catastrophes, described, heading, in history, steadily
«A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
album, albums, All That Remains, an album, extended, extended family, photograph, photograph album
«Perversity is the muse of modern literature»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
literature, modern, muse, mused, Muses, musing, perversities, perversity
«Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
camp, camped, camping, exaggerated, in terms of
«AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.»
«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»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Sex
| Keywords:
gap, in ordinary, opening, pornographic, prevents, wedge, wedges
«In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
amounts, conformable, instances, interpretation, interpreting, manageable, nervous, Philistine, reducing, refusal, tames
«Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space. That we are here, prosperous, safe, unlikely to go to bed hungry or be blown to pieces this evening, while elsewhere in the world, right now in Grozny, in Najaf, in the Sudan, in the Congo, in Gaza, in the favelas of Rio....To be a traveler?and novelists are often travelers?is to be constantly reminded of the simultaneity of what is going on in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited and from which you have returned home.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Conscience,
Writing
| Keywords:
blown, congo, elsewhere, extension, Gaza, go to bed, go to pieces, Grozny, in time, Novelists, perennial, prosperous, reminded, returned, Right Now, Right to return, Rio, sheer, simultaneity, Sudan, surprised, The Congo, this evening, time and space, traveler, travelers, unlikely, visited
«Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been , what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal , needs to be protected from people.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
cameras, ceased, earnest, ecology, endangered, metamorphoses, protected, safari, tamed
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