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Susan Sontag

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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.


— Susan Sontag


#discloses #painter #photographer

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.


— Susan Sontag


#love #love-hurts #love

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.


— Susan Sontag


#art #disaster #fiction #films #oldest

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.


— Susan Sontag


#lust

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.


— Susan Sontag


#intelligence #people #intelligence

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.


— Susan Sontag


#inspirational #life #love #change

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.


— Susan Sontag


#life #love #sex #inspirational

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.


— Susan Sontag


#boredom #controlled #creative #creative man #directed

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.


— Susan Sontag


#boldness #curiosity #inspirational

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.


— Susan Sontag


#literary-criticism #pornography #religion #sex #religion






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"
Ellen Lee accused Sontag of plagiarism when Lee discovered at least twelve passages in In America that were similar to or copied from passages in four other books about Helena Modjeska without attribution. The last two novels were set in the past which Sontag said gave her greater freedom to write in the polyphonic voice. She elevated Camp to the status of recognition with her widely-read 1964 essay Notes on 'Camp' which accepted Art as including common absurd and burlesque themes.

". Sontag was active in writing and speaking about or travelling to areas of conflict including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. Beginning with the publication of her 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'" Sontag became an international cultural and intellectual celebrity.

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