"Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties"

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Source : Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

Susan Sontag

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“I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way to help people. For another, it is a seed one is planting for the life of the book. Someone gave it to someone who gave it to someone else.”
“The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.”
“I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language all the way through. How are you going to know what's new to play, if you haven't listened to everything that's old?'”
“I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.”
“I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.”
“If you're not scared a lot you're not doing very much.”
“I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.”
“Working for the Man seemed really good to me.”

Source : "Because They Hate Shepard Smith and Want Him to Fail" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. February 10, 2009.

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