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Susan Sontag

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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.


— Susan Sontag


#destroy #interesting #only #questions #those

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.


— Susan Sontag


#however #lie #may #opposite #truth

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.


— Susan Sontag


#funny #little #pieces #portable #thought

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.


— Susan Sontag


#although #becoming #formulating #healthy #keep

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.


— Susan Sontag


#give #help #help people #imaginary #insecure

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.


— Susan Sontag


#charms #depression #fits #melancholy #minus

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.


— Susan Sontag


#i #interpret #life #looking #my life

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.


— Susan Sontag


#invents #past #person #photographer #records

"Camp" is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.


— Susan Sontag


#exaggerated #love #particular #style #terms

It is not the position, but the disposition.


— Susan Sontag


#position






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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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