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Susan Sontag Quotes

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American Author January 28, 1933 – December 28, 2004

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To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at..."
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. Susan Sontag
To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better. Susan Sontag
Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in a capitalist society, a society that increasingly restricts the scope and credibility of appeals to ethical principle, in which it is thought foolish not to subject one's actions to the calculus of self-interest and profitability. War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent--war being... Susan Sontag
People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling. The states described as apathy, moral or emotional anesthesia, are full of feelings; the feelings are rage and frustration. Susan Sontag
Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to..."
Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people...."
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art Susan Sontag
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. Susan Sontag
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying..."
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent."
Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the..."
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of..."
I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality,..."
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. Susan Sontag

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