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Susan Sontag Quotes: "A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it."

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste."

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.




Susan Sontag Quotes: "A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.




Susan Sontag Quotes: "I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art."

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares."

Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.




Susan Sontag Quotes: "It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall."

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter."

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "Life is a movie; death is a photograph."

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude."

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "Perversity is the muse of modern literature."

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.




Susan Sontag Quotes: "I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD."

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours."

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears."

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings."

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence."

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage."

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation."

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "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."

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 Sontag Quotes: "Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism."

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material."

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.



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."

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: "The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own."

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "Real art has the capacity to make us nervous."

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "Lying is the most simple form of self-defence."

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied."

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster."

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "Photographers are always imposing"

Photographers are always imposing



Susan Sontag Quotes: "My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything."

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future."

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes."

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person."

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera."

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time."

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production."

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "How boring just to be a body."

How boring just to be a body.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "The white race is the cancer of human history."

The white race is the cancer of human history.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "It is not the position, but the disposition."

It is not the position, but the disposition.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce."

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "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."

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 Sontag Quotes: "What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive."

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager."

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.



Susan Sontag Quotes: "Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love."

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.