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Letter "S" » Susan Sontag Quotes
«Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
formulate, formulated, formulates, formulating, valid
«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.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
contemplative, energize, energized, energizes, energizing, passive, write out
«The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign: with an exotic, often primitive place.»
«The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.»
«Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens --and real diseases are useful material.»
«In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.»
«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.»
«It is only the fear of malpractice that keeps doctors candid in this country.»
«Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject. . . . [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.»
«That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.»
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