Opinions are like some kind of crust that grows on top of things and you want to kind of peel them off. - Susan Sontag

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Opinions are like some kind of crust that grows on top of things and you want to kind of peel them off.

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About Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag (16 January 1933 – 28 December 2004) was an American essayist, literary critic, cultural theorist, and political activist.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Lynn Gilbert (CC BY-SA)

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Alternative Names: Susan Rosenblatt Susan Lee Sontag Susan Lee Rosenblatt

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Feeling of discontinuity as a person. My various selves — how do they all come together? And anxiety at moments of transition from one “role” to another. Will I make it fifteen minutes from now? Be able to step into, inhabit the person I’m supposed to be? This is felt as an infinitely hazardous leap, no matter how often it’s successfully executed.

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