72 Quotations by Susan Sontag
- 1. A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains o ...
- 2. A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considere ...
- 3. A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp ...
- 4. AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder ...
- 5. AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It ...
- 6. Al l forms of consensus about "great" books and "perennial" problems, once stabilized, tend to deter ...
- 7. Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating th ...
- 8. Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
- 9. American "energy" is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by ch ...
- 10. Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the ra ...
- 11. Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be ...
- 12. Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading towa ...
- 13. Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a s ...
- 14. Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the ...
- 15. Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence. ...
- 16. Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.
- 17. Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past ...
- 18. Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone n ...
- 19. Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and p ...
- 20. For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of ...
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