Susan Sontag's Quotes

Susan Sontag's Quotes 22

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth which is unbalance may...

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality...

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are at best reformed or...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster which...

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

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can...

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an...

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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear...

The love of the famous like all strong passions is quite abstract. Its...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and often...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments of course. But certain lapses of...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and by...

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life but rather for my life...

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a...

The past itself as historical change continues to accelerate has become the...

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room...