I’ve become passive. I don’t invent, I don’t yearn. I manag… - Susan Sontag

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I’ve become passive. I don’t invent, I don’t yearn. I manage, I cope.

Susan Sontag

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

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Alternative Names: Susan Rosenblatt

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Image of an image of an image... But to record all the dips and upswings, in a sense falsifies them, and I start deluding myself and thinking all this is, or might be, real. Enough to play the game, or try to play it. A mistake to tally up the score.

All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

I’ve become passive. I don’t invent, I don’t yearn. I manage, I cope. - Susan Sontag

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