Quote by Susan Sontag
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of ar

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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A familys photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. – 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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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. – T. S. Eliot

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When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures. – Jo Nesbo

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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when Im in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they dont know who theyre talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. – Harrison Ford

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Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility. – Jon Meacham

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A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home. – John Shadegg

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