Famous Quotes / Susan Sontag
72 Quotations by Susan Sontag
- 61. The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontroll ...
- 62. The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
- 63. The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
- 64. Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecti ...
- 65. Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. I ...
- 66. Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on va ...
- 67. Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, ...
- 68. War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view "realistically;" that i ...
- 69. We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting ...
- 70. What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women ...
- 71. What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full hu ...
- 72. What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.