Susan Sontag Quotes
Love dies because its birth was an error.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag 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 SontagSusan Sontag To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Sanity is a cozy lie.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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About Susan Sontag Quotes
Education:Radcliffe College, New York
Walk of life:American writer
Born:16 January 1933, US
Died:28 December 2004, US
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