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“One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.”

Quote by Susan Sontag

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

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A Susan Sontag reader

This reader compiles a selection of Susan Sontag's influential writings, covering a range of topics including literature, art, photography, and cultural theory. Sontag's work is known for its intellectual rigor and innovative perspectives on contemporary issues. more

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Susan Sontag was an American writer, critic, and photographer. Known for her unique literary style and profound thinking, her work spans various fields including literature, art, and politics. Born on January 16, 1933, she passed away on December 28, 2004. more

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“Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.”

Doe Art Different Turns Taste Offers Judgment Standards Ordinary Arguing Camps Aesthetic Reverse Axes Art And Life

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Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content.”

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“Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.”

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“Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.”

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“To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.”

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Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.”

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“The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.”

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Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.”

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“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin.”

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Book:Conversations with Salman Rushdie

Source: Conversations with Salman Rushdie

“It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words, and the weird words excite them.”

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