Susan Sontag Quotes
1933–2004 United States
Susan Sontag (16 January 1933 – 28 December 2004) was an American essayist, literary critic, cultural theorist, and political activist.
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Also known as: Sontag, Susan
102 quotes
To speak of reality becoming a spectacle is a breathtaking provincialism.
Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking.
They [photographs of war victims] create the illusion of consensus.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
Depression is melancholy minus its charms—the animation, the fits.
In place of hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Susan Sontag (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.