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Susan Sontag

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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.


— Susan Sontag


#end #everything #exists #order #photograph

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.


— Susan Sontag


#idea #interested #someone #writer

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.


— Susan Sontag


#become #been #camera #photographs #rather

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.


— Susan Sontag


#becomes #blame #evil #identified #illness

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.


— Susan Sontag


#militants #only #signs #surrealism #thought

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.


— Susan Sontag


#expansion #ideology #indefinite #into #liberty

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.


— Susan Sontag


#famous #independent #intensity #like #love

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.


— Susan Sontag


#extinction #only #problems #solved #truly

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


— Susan Sontag


#ideas #kind #really #taste

To photograph is to confer importance.


— Susan Sontag


#importance #photograph






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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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