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Susan Sontag Quotes

Susan Sontag quotes about life

American Author January 28, 1933 – December 28, 2004

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Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician’s discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as “identities” that fit in the larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innovation. Susan Sontag
My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another. Susan Sontag
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom. Susan Sontag
Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of use is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. Susan Sontag
We are told we must choose? the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?"[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003] Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "Life is a movie; death is a photograph."
Life is a movie; death is a photograph. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in..."
That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but..."
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. Susan Sontag
One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s..."
What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use..."
One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one..."
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. Susan Sontag
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. Susan Sontag
Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed..."
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. Susan Sontag

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