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Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

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Susan Sontag is saying that intelligence involves having a preference or sensitivity toward certain kinds of ideas, much like how taste guides what we enjoy in food or art. This means being intelligent is not just about knowing facts, but about appreciating and valuing particular ways of thinking.

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