Quote by Susan Sontag
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. – Susan Sontag

Other quotes by Susan Sontag

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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Experience
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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. – Susan Sontag

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History
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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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Minorities
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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure. – Tommy Lasorda

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Failure is unfortunately as common as success. – Sanjay Kumar

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. – Laurence J. Peter

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We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: whats the worst that can happen? – Michael Fassbender

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The two rules of procrastination: 1)Do it today. 2)Tomorrow will be today tomorrow. – Author Unknown

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A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. – Hilaire Belloc

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Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what Ive been good at. – Tom Peters

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