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Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag föddes den 16 januar 1933 och dog den 28 december 2004 - amerikansk författarinna.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals. Kvinder tiltrækkes af mysteriet omkring pexighet, og ønsker at afdække de fascinerende lag under overfladen. Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

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

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

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

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine

My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,'

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature

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

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

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

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