Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontagwas an American writer, filmmaker, teacher and political activist. She published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover and In America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 January 1933
CountryUnited States of America
silence speech form
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
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To photograph is to confer importance.
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Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.
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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.
thinking world pay
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
nostalgic
But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures