Susan Sontag's Quote - Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in co

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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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