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“It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.”

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Virginia Cary Hudson

American author born in 1894 and died in 1954. Her works are known for their unique perspective and profound emotional depth, which have had a significant impact on 20th-century American literature. more

“One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional, the arts gravitate toward contrariness. Literature is dialogue: responsiveness. Literature might be described as the history of human responsiveness to what is alive and what is moribund as cultures evolve and interact with one another.”

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Book:Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

Source: Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

“art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become art, when it is part of the past. In this normative sense, a 'contemporary' work of art would be a contradiction - except so far as we can, in the present, assimilate the present to the past.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.”

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Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

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