All Susan Sontag Quotes
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Susan Sontag
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag
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What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
Susan Sontag
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Intelligence
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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
Susan Sontag
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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
Susan Sontag
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I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.
Susan Sontag
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Susan Sontag
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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.
Susan Sontag
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In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
Susan Sontag
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
Susan Sontag
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
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