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Susan Sontag Quotes
Best Quotes by Susan Sontag (Top 10)
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
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AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties
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What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
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Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.
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What we need is to use what we have.
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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.
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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.
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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
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