My loyalty to the past — my most dangerous trait, the one that has cost me most. - Susan Sontag

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My loyalty to the past — my most dangerous trait, the one that has cost me most.

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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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All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulation: that is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds. Ideologies create substantiating archives of images, representative images, which encapsulate common ideas of significance and trigger predictable thoughts, feelings.

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