72 Quotations by Susan Sontag
- 41. Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou ...
- 42. Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
- 43. Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to the ...
- 44. Sanity is a cozy lie.
- 45. Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest sub ...
- 46. Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us ...
- 47. Taste has no system and no proofs.
- 48. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own expe ...
- 49. The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
- 50. The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write ...
- 51. The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
- 52. The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and ...
- 53. The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture ...
- 54. The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion ...
- 55. The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured m ...
- 56. The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.
- 57. The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
- 58. The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec ...
- 59. The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
- 60. The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of A ...
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