All Susan Sontag Quotes
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
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The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
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What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
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As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
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Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
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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.
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