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To be an artist or a writer i...

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Being in love means being wil...

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

In the final analysis, style ...

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

The love of the famous, like ...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

What is most beautiful in vir...

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

AIDS occupies such a large pa...

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.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

To take a photograph is to pa...

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.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

It is not altogether wrong to...

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

It is not the position, but t...

It is not the position, but the disposition.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Making social comment is an a...

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

AIDS obliges people to think ...

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Volume depends precisely on t...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

I do not think white America ...

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

The problems of this world ar...

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

The truth is balance. However...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

The ideology of capitalism ma...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Lying is the most simple form...

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

The taste for quotations (and...

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Although none of the rules fo...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

The past itself, as historica...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

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