#me

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice." ↗

— Sophocles

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#artist #comment #condition #creates #force

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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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

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

— Susan Sontag

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By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway. ↗

— Ace Frehley

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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

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