Susan Sontag (American writer)
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Born : January 16, 1933
Died : December 28, 2004
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American intellectual and writer best known for her essays on modern culture.
Sontag’s essays are characterized by a serious philosophical approach to various aspects and personalities of modern culture. She first came to national attention in 1964 with an essay entitled “Notes on ‘Camp,’ ” in which she discussed the attributes of taste within the gay community. She also wrote on such subjects as theatre and film and such figures as writer Nathalie Sarraute, director Robert Bresson, and painter Francis Bacon. In addition to criticism and fiction, she wrote screenplays and edited selected writings of Roland Barthes and Antonin Artaud. Some of her later writings and speeches were collected in At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches (2007).
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Born : January 16, 1933
Died : December 28, 2004
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American intellectual and writer best known for her essays on modern culture.
Sontag’s essays are characterized by a serious philosophical approach to various aspects and personalities of modern culture. She first came to national attention in 1964 with an essay entitled “Notes on ‘Camp,’ ” in which she discussed the attributes of taste within the gay community. She also wrote on such subjects as theatre and film and such figures as writer Nathalie Sarraute, director Robert Bresson, and painter Francis Bacon. In addition to criticism and fiction, she wrote screenplays and edited selected writings of Roland Barthes and Antonin Artaud. Some of her later writings and speeches were collected in At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches (2007).
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“My library is an archive of longings.”
- As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh
- As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh
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“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
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“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
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“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
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“It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.”
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"It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little…have few verbal means. Eloquence…thinking in words…is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality. In groups, it's more natural to sing, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech."
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"I’ve become passive. I don’t invent. I don’t yearn. I manage, I cope."
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“Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”
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“I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.”
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“I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.”
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“I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all. I like watching people, but I don’t like talking to them, dealing with them, pleasing them, or offending them. I am tired.”
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Arthur Miller (American playwright)
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Born : October 17, 1915
Died : February 10, 2005
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American playwright, who combined social awareness with a searching concern for his characters’ inner lives.
Death of a Salesman, became one of the most famous American plays of its period. It is the tragedy of Willy Loman, a man destroyed by false values that are in large part the values of his society.
Miller had been exploring the ideas underlying Death of a Salesman since he was a teenager, when he wrote a story about a Jewish salesman; he also drew on memories of an uncle. He wrote the play in 1948, and it opened in New York City, directed by Kazan, in February 1949. The play won a Tony Award for best play and a Pulitzer Prize for drama, while Miller and Kazan again each won individual Tonys, as author and director respectively. The play was later adapted for the screen (1951 and several made-for-television versions) and was revived several times on Broadway.
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Born : October 17, 1915
Died : February 10, 2005
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American playwright, who combined social awareness with a searching concern for his characters’ inner lives.
Death of a Salesman, became one of the most famous American plays of its period. It is the tragedy of Willy Loman, a man destroyed by false values that are in large part the values of his society.
Miller had been exploring the ideas underlying Death of a Salesman since he was a teenager, when he wrote a story about a Jewish salesman; he also drew on memories of an uncle. He wrote the play in 1948, and it opened in New York City, directed by Kazan, in February 1949. The play won a Tony Award for best play and a Pulitzer Prize for drama, while Miller and Kazan again each won individual Tonys, as author and director respectively. The play was later adapted for the screen (1951 and several made-for-television versions) and was revived several times on Broadway.
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“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.”
― A View from the Bridge
― A View from the Bridge
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“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
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