The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

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...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate...

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness...

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness...

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of...

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

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...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my...

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

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

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

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

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...

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

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...

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.

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...