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title: "29 Way Quotes By Susan Sontag"
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> [I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/i-have-to-come-out-of-the-closet-of-the-third-person-and-speak-in-a/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [I love to read the way people love to watch television.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/i-love-to-read-the-way-people-love-to-watch-television/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photography-is-first-of-all-a-way-of-seeing/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [“If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/if-there-can-be-a-better-way-for-the-real-world-to-include-the-one-of/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/writing-is-finally-a-series-of-permissions-you-give-yourself-to-be/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/instead-of-just-recording-reality-photographs-have-become-the-norm/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/a-personality-is-our-way-of-being-for-others-we-hope-that-others-will/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-are-a-way-of-imprisoning-reality-one-can-t-possess/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/you-have-to-sink-way-down-to-a-level-of-hopelessness-and-desperation/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/when-you-see-your-40-page-essay-turned-into-a-hot-tip-in-one/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-work-of-art-itself-is-a-vibrant-magical-and-exemplary-object/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-are-a-way-of-imprisoning-reality-understood-as-2/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/someone-who-is-perennially-surprised-that-depravity-exists-who/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/while-a-painting-even-one-that-meets-photographic-standards-of/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-way-in-which-a-certain-kind-of-political-idealism-has-been/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-are-a-way-of-imprisoning-reality-understood-as/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/a-man-never-forgets-his-body-the-way-a-woman-does-because-a-man-is/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/it-s-so-effortless-to-let-my-loneliness-defeat-me-make-me-mold-myself/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/a-large-part-of-the-popularity-and-persuasiveness-of-psychology-comes/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/it-s-not-natural-to-speak-well-eloquently-in-an-interesting/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/though-collecting-quotations-could-be-considered-as-merely-an-ironic-2/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/any-photograph-has-multiple-meanings-indeed-to-see-something-in-the/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/i-write-in-spurts-i-write-when-i-have-to-because-the-pressure-builds/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/that-tendency-of-social-thought-to-generalize-to-describe-a-leading/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/while-a-painting-even-one-that-meets-photographic-standards-of-2/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/images-have-been-reproached-for-being-a-way-of-watching-suffering-at/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/a-way-of-certifying-experience-taking-photographs-is-also-a-way-of/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/people-don-t-become-inured-to-what-they-are-shown-if-that-s-the-right/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/total-experiences-of-which-there-are-many-kinds-tend-again-and-again/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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## Other authors on Way

## More by Susan Sontag

> [the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-appetite-for-thinking-must-be-regulated-as-all-sensible-people/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

> [We are ruled by quotations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/we-are-ruled-by-quotations/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

> [Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/unfortunately-moral-beauty-in-art-like-physical-beauty-in-a-person-is/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

> [Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/like-the-collector-the-photographer-is-animated-by-a-passion-that/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

> [ Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… \[The anthropologist\] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/anthropology-has-always-struggled-with-an-intense-fascinated/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/why-not-eliminate-schooling-between-age-12-16-it-s-biologically/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

> [To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/to-photograph-people-is-to-violate-them-by-seeing-them-as-they-never/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

> [One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/one-set-of-messages-of-the-society-we-live-in-is-consume-grow-do-what/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

> [Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/currently-intellectuals-in-western-europe-and-north-america-are/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

> [With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/with-the-modern-diseases-once-tb-now-cancer-the-romantic-idea-that/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

> [As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/as-objects-of-contemplation-images-of-the-atrocious-can-answer-to/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

> [The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-creative-phase-of-an-idea-coincides-with-the-period-during-which/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

> [Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-objectify-they-turn-an-event-or-a-person-into-something/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

> [I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/i-m-not-interested-in-giving-aid-and-comfort-to-the-neo-conservatives/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

> [The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-feminist-movement-has-been-important-to-me-because-it-s-made-me/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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