Best Susan Sontag Lines
- The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied. Akin
- Images are more real than anyone could have supposed. Anyone
- Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras. Cameras
- Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it. Allows
- Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more. Always Wants
- The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. Aestheticism
- Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success. Concerned
- Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training,… Appearance
- The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded. All
- Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised. Analysis
- Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. Ennobling
- The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is… Admiration
- With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character… Advice
- Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The… Aestheticism
- Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind… Adversaries
- The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. Duplication
- Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its… Becomes
- Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not. Aesthetics
- Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes. Avenues
- Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and… Been
- When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in. Begins
- The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of… Acceleration
- In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge… Already Classical
- Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an… Arrangement
- The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an… Becomes
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