The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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