It is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAGSelf-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAGMy library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAGLife is a movie; death is a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGI urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAGMost people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAGThe camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAG10 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 SONTAGI want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAGBeing in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAGShouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGCompassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
SUSAN SONTAGAll understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAGInstead 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 SONTAG