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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 Quotes)
Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament. (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form. (Susan Sontag Quotes)
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin. (Susan Sontag Quotes)
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2 (Susan Sontag Quotes)
I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi’s account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam’s war against women. Her memoir contains important and properly complex reflections about the ravages of theocracy, about thoughtfulness, and about the ordeals of freedom-as well as a stirring account of the pleasures and deepening of consciousness that result from an encounter with great literature and with an inspired teacher. (Susan Sontag Quotes)
I feel that I’ve had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs (Susan Sontag Quotes)
What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness (Susan Sontag Quotes)
One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Ideas disturb the levelness of life (Susan Sontag Quotes)
An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious (Susan Sontag Quotes)
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears (Susan Sontag Quotes)
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them (Susan Sontag Quotes)
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager (Susan Sontag Quotes)
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art (Susan Sontag Quotes)
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation (Susan Sontag Quotes)
In photographing dwarfs, you don’t get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed (Susan Sontag Quotes)