Quote by Susan Sontag
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in co

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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AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. – Susan Sontag

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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. – Susan Sontag

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