Quote by Susan Sontag
We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seeming

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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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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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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But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. – Iris Murdoch

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The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty. – Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes

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When a fantasy turns you on, youre obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away. – Stewart Brand

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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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