Susan Sontag Quotes

540 quotes · Essayist, Critic, Activist

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Susan Sontag Quotes

All Philosophical Creative Angry Thoughtful Wise 540 quotes · page 26 of 45

Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

Lonely

“The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.”

People Interesting Illness

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

Funny

“Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.”

Funny Secret Television

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Creative

“To collect photographs is to collect the world.”

World Photography

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Angry

“My ignorance is not charming.”

Ignorance Charming

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Courageous

“Communism is fascism with a human face.”

Faces Communism Fascism

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Philosophical

“Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.”

Reality Cameras

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Grateful

“Most of my reading is rereading.”

Reading Rereading

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Love

“A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way.”

Men Doe Body

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Funny

“The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.”

Serious Relation Camps

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Melancholic

“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 Japan, the break with the past has been particularly traumatic.”

Country Past Giving Up

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Confident

“This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.”

Class Self Confidence Lifestyle

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Philosophical

“Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.”

Life Views Modern

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