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The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public.

— Susan Sontag

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Don't be too hard on the envious. Be glad you have, or had in the past, something enviable.

Death Kit (1967)

From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck with the task of defending art.

Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)

Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility.

Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)

Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness. The truths we respect are those born of affliction.

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