Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

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...

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in...

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in...

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...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be...

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests...

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests...

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...

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....

It is not the position, but the disposition.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

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.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

Which death is preferably to every other? ''The unexpected.

Which death is preferably to every other? ''The unexpected.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without...

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without...