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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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene — in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses. – Susan Sontag

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Cancer
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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. – Susan Sontag

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Fantasy
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. – Susan Sontag

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I dont want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too. – Jack Benny

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Exaggeration

Some folks never exaggerate — they just remember big. – Author Unknown

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Exaggeration

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. – Hosea Ballou

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Exaggeration

Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Exaggeration

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To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes. – Tony Snow

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