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Other Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to…
- [T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style…
- Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art…
- No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.
- Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.
- The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
- Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything…
- If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to…
- I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
- ...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are…
- It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour