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Susan Sontag

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Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.


— Susan Sontag


#lying #means #self-defense

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.


— Susan Sontag


#best #lunatics #mad #most #people

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.


— Susan Sontag


#exhaustion #his #history #man #possibilities

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.


— Susan Sontag


#beauty #become #change #continues #historical

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.


— Susan Sontag


#always #anything #known #only #something

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.


— Susan Sontag


#becomes #photographs #strategy

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.


— Susan Sontag


#guilt #inexorable #innocence #logic #suggest

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.


— Susan Sontag


#considered #deaths #demeaning #diseases #easy

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.


— Susan Sontag


#consequences #having #murder #obliges #people

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.


— Susan Sontag


#await #awareness #because #been #catastrophes






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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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