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Own Quotes by Susan Sontag
- The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the…
- To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices…
- 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,…
- 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.…
- [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…
- Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our…
- The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
- The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather…
- I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
- Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little…
- Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my…
- 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…
- Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own…
- The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov