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Where the Stress Falls: Essays QUOTES

Where the Stress Falls: Essays QUOTES

1 " (When I look at my picture I read stubbornness, balked vanity, panic, vulnerability.) "

― Susan Sontag , Where the Stress Falls: Essays

2 " BEAUTY. The visionary authority of Childs’s work resides, in part, in its lack of rhetoric. Her strict avoidance of cliché, and of anything that would make the work disjunctive, fragmented. The refusal of humor, self-mockery, flirtation with the audience, cult of personality. The distaste for the exhibitionistic: movement calling attention to itself, isolatable “effects.” Beauty as, first of all, an art of refusal. "

― Susan Sontag , Where the Stress Falls: Essays

3 " Pašovi invited me to see his Grad (City), a collage, with music, of declamations, partly drawn from texts by Constantine Cavafy, Zbigniew Herbert, and Sylvia Plath, using a dozen actors; "

― Susan Sontag , Where the Stress Falls: Essays