Susan Sontag Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004
Birthday: January 16
Death: December 28
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.
source: "Notes on 'Camp'" by Susan Sontag, note 54, (p. 291), 1964.
topic: Witty, Exercise, Men, Bad Taste, Hedonism
