Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used … - Susan Sontag

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When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on his armor.

Susan Sontag

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

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The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneits ideologies and inventionswhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.

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. . . what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

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