American - Author | January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Susan Sontag
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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To photograph is to confer importance.
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Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
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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.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
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In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
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