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Certain Quotes by Susan Sontag
- [T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style…
- To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like…
- Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and…
- Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
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- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
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