Susan Sontag Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.

  Susan Sontag

  Love, Couple, Hunting

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.190, Macmillan

• In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt... Nothing except eating, if that, and the frenzy of the bed.

  Susan Sontag

  Beautiful, Rivers, Smell

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.209, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.

  Susan Sontag

  Jobs, Lying, Voice

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.193, Macmillan

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