Quote by Susan Sontag
Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particula

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style — but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated. – Susan Sontag

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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. – Susan Sontag

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Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. – Susan Sontag

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All news is an exaggeration of life. – Daniel Schorr

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Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. – William Alger

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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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