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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Most people in this society who arent actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. – Susan Sontag

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To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. – Susan Sontag

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Volume depends precisely on the writers having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. – Susan Sontag

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Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. – Tryon Edwards

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All news is an exaggeration of life. – Daniel Schorr

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To exaggerate is to weaken. – Jean François de La Harpe, Melanie, 1770

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By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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