Best Susan Sontag Thoughts
- Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism Collecting
- The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. Incongruous
- We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous,… Abandoned
- Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get… Clamor
- Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody. Like Punching
- I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in… Anything Else
- But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable.… All
- Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable. Authoritarian
- His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body -… Any
- The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the… Air
- A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to… Act
- How boring just to be a body. Body
- It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys. Action
- Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society. Bellum
- [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of… Aggressive
- The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing. Allowed
- Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air. Air
- As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself… Art
- Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view. Life
- This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased. Beauty
- The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate. Danger
- What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work. Feel
- Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of… Adulthood
- Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict.… Acknowledgment
- Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much. Altogether
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