Susan Sontag ✓

(1933–2004) women's rights activist United States

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[Wikidata] American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004)... | [Wikipedia] Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metap

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• Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel. Insofar
• Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged… Each
• To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have... Inspirational
• Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'. Appreciation
• Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through. Big
• A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing. Funny
• In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life. Don T
• Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself. Antidote
• It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just… Actively
• Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person. Love
• Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex. Good
• The white race is the cancer of human history. Cancer
• 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… Case
• The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of… Aliens
• The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention. Attention
• American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most… American
• War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins. Dismembers
• The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . . Ant
• Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not… Able
• Literature usually begets literature. Begets
• In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent,… Century
• The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man. Explain
• A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once. All
• To collect photographs is to collect the world. Collect
• Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty. Beauty

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