Quotes by Sontag, Susan

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Perversity is the muse of modern literature. >>

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Quotations about Excess

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

I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad. >>

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom. >>

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.

Sontag, Susan