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Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

American Author Defense

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us. . . - Susan Sontag Quotes

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us. . .

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space. That we are here, prosperous, safe, unlikely to go to bed hungry or be blown to pieces this evening, while elsewhere in the world, right now in Grozny, in Najaf, in the Sudan, in the Congo, in Gaza, in the favelas of Rio....To be a travelerÃ¢â¬âand novelists are often travelersÃ¢â¬âis to be constantly reminded of the simultaneity of what is going on in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited and from which you have returned home. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space. That we are here, prosperous, safe, unlikely to go to bed hungry or be blown to pieces this evening, while elsewhere in the world, right now in Grozny, in Najaf, in the Sudan, in the Congo, in Gaza, in the favelas of Rio....To be a travelerÃ¢â¬âand novelists are often travelersÃ¢â¬âis to be constantly reminded of the simultaneity of what is going on in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited and from which you have returned home.

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. - Susan Sontag Quotes

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.

Anxiety Travel And Tourism

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. - Susan Sontag Quotes

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

American Author Consequences

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. - Susan Sontag Quotes

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them - Susan Sontag Quotes

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it. - Susan Sontag Quotes

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Disease Sexuality

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

Image Pollution

It is only the fear of malpractice that keeps doctors candid in this country. - Susan Sontag Quotes

It is only the fear of malpractice that keeps doctors candid in this country.

The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally violent are seen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways. - Susan Sontag Quotes

The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally violent are seen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

[Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A deadening earnestness and political self-awareness that do not meet the delight component that is a story's bottom line. Too much ideological hand-wringing. We've all sat through readings by authors whose politics we admire but whose prose cannot hold us. We are reminded of the definition of] camp ... a seriousness that fails. - Susan Sontag Quotes

[Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A deadening earnestness and political self-awareness that do not meet the delight component that is a story's bottom line. Too much ideological hand-wringing. We've all sat through readings by authors whose politics we admire but whose prose cannot hold us. We are reminded of the definition of] camp ... a seriousness that fails.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds - Susan Sontag Quotes

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both. - Susan Sontag Quotes

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.

Guilt Writers And Writing

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. - Susan Sontag Quotes

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

American Author

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. - Susan Sontag Quotes

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

American Author

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. - Susan Sontag Quotes

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion of possibility. - Susan Sontag Quotes

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

American Author Madness

It's fantastic knowing you're going to die; it really makes having priorities and trying to follow them very real to you. - Susan Sontag Quotes

It's fantastic knowing you're going to die; it really makes having priorities and trying to follow them very real to you.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

American Author Disease

Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters of culture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters of culture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. - Susan Sontag Quotes

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

American Author

Of course the movies are going to be the more visible, more high profile, for the simple reason that a lot more money is involved and this is a largely money-oriented society. ... Nevertheless, this is a very good book town, whether it's known to be that or not, and that's why you have something like this.

Movie

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been , what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal , needs to be protected from people. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been , what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal , needs to be protected from people.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "victims."

Evil

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood. - Susan Sontag Quotes

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

Anger Writers And Writing

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

American Author

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

American Author Guilt

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

Consciousness Sexuality

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

American Author Art

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion. - Susan Sontag Quotes

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

Discovery Taste

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. - Susan Sontag Quotes

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

American Author

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up - Susan Sontag Quotes

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

American Author Ideas

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. - Susan Sontag Quotes

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

American Author Suffering

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams - Susan Sontag Quotes

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

American Author

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Advice American Author

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

American Author Existence

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. - Susan Sontag Quotes

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

American Author Travel

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions - Susan Sontag Quotes

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe /though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived. - Susan Sontag Quotes

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe /though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

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