Susan Sontag Quotes

540 quotes · Essayist, Critic, Activist

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Susan Sontag Quotes

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

Philosophical

“On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.”

Doe Simple Making Love

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

Courageous

“All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.”

Struggle Community Resistance

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Regretful

“The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.”

Art Successful

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Angry

“whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.”

Scar

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Curious

“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.”

Inspiration Waiting Kissing

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Anxious

“Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.”

Fun Travel Vacation

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Grateful

“All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.”

Photography Memorable

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Anxious

“It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.”

Hard Graduation

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Creative

“Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.”

Art Taken Too Much

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Curious

“Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.”

World Ifs Has Beens

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Angry

“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 interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.”

Love Couple Hunting

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Philosophical

“We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?”

Choices Facts Understanding

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