Famous Susan Sontag Words
- All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. All
- The only interesting ideas are heresies Heresies
- Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Clenched
- Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager. Attention
- Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. Big
- Try not to live in a linguistic slum. Inspirational
- I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.” The things… Actively
- Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream… Almost Always
- Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in… Born
- War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome.… Activities
- I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD. Bold
- Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of… All
- What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Beautiful
- The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way… Act
- Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals. Individuals
- Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space.… Bed
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