Susan Sontag Quotes - Page 21

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• Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

  Susan Sontag

  Change, Nature, Swag

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• The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

  Susan Sontag

  Past, Quality, Photograph

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.22, Macmillan

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• A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

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  Death, Memorial, Dying

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• ... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

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  Goal, Consciousness, Pornography

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• Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.

  Susan Sontag

  Movie, Art, Ideas

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• The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.

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  Feminist, Important, Lucky

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I certainly identify myself as a feminist.

  Susan Sontag

  Feminist

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.

  Susan Sontag

  Lasts, Had Enough, Lifetime

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

  Susan Sontag

  France, Interest, Happenings

  Source: ctheory.net

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• You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even.

  Susan Sontag

  Knows

  Source: ctheory.net

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• It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

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  Ideas, Firsts, Justify

  Source: ctheory.net

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• You can always be quoted.

  Susan Sontag

  Source: ctheory.net

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• There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools to think that we could make radical changes in our society. Though I understand their dismay, respect their suffering and don't understand the gullibility of some people who don't take in how repressive these societies are, I still think it's important to keep people of all kinds as active in civic matters as possible.

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  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

  Susan Sontag

  Europe, America, Conservative

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but those whose work I feel has been neglected.

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  Writing, Artist, Care

  Source: ctheory.net

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• When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Hot, Pages

  Source: ctheory.net

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• When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Views, Firsts

  Source: ctheory.net

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• In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I would like to concentrate on work which is more resistant to that procedure, as I think fiction is.

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  Writing, Thinking, Intellectual

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

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  Ideas, Temperament, Sensibility

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament.

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  Reflection, Practice, Use

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

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  Fiction, Narrative, Possibility

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

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  Photography, Reality, Self

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

  Susan Sontag

  Thinking, Vacuums, American Universities

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive and literary, than to writing which is extremely academic or jargon-ridden.

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  Writing, Years, Jargon

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I didn't think of myself as importing, I thought it was more interesting to write about things people didn't know about than what they did. When I became aware that I was in fact "importing", I stopped doing it.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: ctheory.net

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