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Been Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what…
- Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.
- AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all…
- Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.
- American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most…
- 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…
- Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.
- So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
- Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
- I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
- I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
- One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.
- Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that…
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