Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: The Benefactor (1963), Ch. 1, p. 1, Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-312-42012-9
“Academic writing excuses itself from rhetorical care in the selfless service of some precise truth—and then deforms our only means for speaking truth.”
Christian Rhetoric: Scraps for a Manifesto
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