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Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
American Author
Born: Jan 16, 1933
Died: Dec 28, 2004
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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. Susan Sontag
Truth Balance Truth Is Lie Opposite However May Which
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. Susan Sontag
Silence Remains Form Speech
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. Susan Sontag
Intelligence Kind Ideas Taste Really
Sanity is a cozy lie. Susan Sontag
Lie Cozy Sanity
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. Susan Sontag
Family Photograph About Remains Generally Often Extended Extended Family Album
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. Susan Sontag
People Sex Think Consequences Suicide AIDS Possibly Having
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. Susan Sontag
People Envy Attention Feel Them Paying Actually
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. Susan Sontag
Life Significant Details Photographs Forever Fixed Flash Illuminated
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. Susan Sontag
Surrealist Taste Quotations Juxtaposition
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
Time Melt Relentless Out Photograph Photographs Take Mortality Participate Freezing Another Vulnerability Testify Person Precisely Moment
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag
Beautiful Women Most Beautiful Men Virile Something Masculine Most Feminine
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. Susan Sontag
Capitalism Liberty Ideology Indefinite Possibility Makes Expansion Us
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. Susan Sontag
Thought Signs Only Bourgeois Surrealism Universal
I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. Susan Sontag
Work Wake Up Alienation Says All My Work Kinds Various Feel Passionate Wake Up Want Interested Engagement Express Serious
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. Susan Sontag
Considered Easy About Shameful Mythology Part Demeaning Most Deaths Diseases Fiction Soft
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. Susan Sontag
Alone Day Every Day Year Sit Every Able Having Writer Volume Been Precisely Depends After Room
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. Susan Sontag
Failure Entitled Judgment Radical Critic Indicate Entire Wrong Course Judgments Any Sensibility Certain
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
Change Beauty Become Past Possible See Vanishing New Most Accelerate Making Surreal Subjects Historical Itself
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. Susan Sontag
History Man Possibilities Becoming Exhaustion His The History Of
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. Susan Sontag
Simple Lying Self-Defence Most Form
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. Susan Sontag
Suffering Feared Most Deeply
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. Susan Sontag
Nature History Seen Changing Steadily Catastrophe Toward Heading Anything
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. Susan Sontag
Blame Evil Identified Becomes Which Victims Illness Societies Need
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. Susan Sontag
Beautiful World Become Has-Been Photographs Rather Camera Been Than Role Successful Standard
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. Susan Sontag
Art Style Nothing Analysis Final More More Or Less Various Stylized Than Representation Modes Less
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
Future Equality Will Country White Think Passionately Continue Foreseeable Foreseeable Future America American Committed

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