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Susan Sontag Quotes


An American author, literary theorist, public intellectual and political activist; her published works include On Photography and Against Interpretation. 
Susan Sontag was an American author, literary theorist, public intellectual and political activist; her published works include On Photography and Against Interpretation.

Here are some famous quotes by Susan Sontag.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

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Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others.

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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.

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Life is not about significant details illuminated in a flash fixed forever. Photographs are.

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Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.

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What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

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Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear endearing touching precious. At least the past is safe-though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural death is the obscene mystery the ultimate affront the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.