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Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag (/?s?ntæ?/; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, filmmaker, teacher and political activist. She published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover and In America.

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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own exper ...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o ...

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passion ...

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

Desire has no history...

Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.

The white race is the cancer of human history.

Writing is a mysterious activity.

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for ...

Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more ...

God, living is enormous!

Art is seduction, not rape.

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a ph ...