Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an...

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an...

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or...

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or...

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man...

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man...

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to...

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular...

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who...

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who...