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The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader’s heart (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we’re shown a photograph of it (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall (Susan Sontag Quotes)
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo (Susan Sontag Quotes)
In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants (Susan Sontag Quotes)
A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way (Susan Sontag Quotes)
It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys (Susan Sontag Quotes)
As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed (Susan Sontag Quotes)
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 (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man’s destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny... it is also her vulnerability (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art (Susan Sontag Quotes)
To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved when the see the real thing. For photographic images tend to subtract feeling from something we experience at first hand and the feelings they do arouse are, largely, not those we have in real life. Often something disturbs us more in photographed form than it does when we actually experience it (Susan Sontag Quotes)
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past (Susan Sontag Quotes)
I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don’t consider it a moral virtue (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease (Susan Sontag Quotes)