Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAGSocieties need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAGI want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAGIn the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
SUSAN SONTAGIt 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 SONTAGTime exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAGMy idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
SUSAN SONTAGIf tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAGOur appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGAll understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAGTo 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 SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAGWhat is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
SUSAN SONTAGArt is a form of consciousness.
SUSAN SONTAGThe fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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