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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result i

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. – 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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