American - Author | January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag
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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
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'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
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