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Letter "S" » Susan Sontag Quotes
«It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.»
«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.»
«Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds»
«Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.»
«The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
constructs, disclosed, discloses, painter, photographer, photographers, the photographer
«The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
delinquent, delinquents, guilt-ridden, guilt, practicing, recluse, ridden
«I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them»
«Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
details, fixed, flash, illuminated, photographs, significant
«Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
attainment, attainments, flux, intensely, mobile, precarious, relevance
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