Susan Sontag

Books are funny...

Books are funny...

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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The best emotions...

The best emotions...

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is...

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I was not...

I was not...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my...

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The basic unit...

The basic unit...

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of...

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It is the...

It is the...

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is...

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A family's photograph...

A family's photograph...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family -- and, often, is all that remains of...

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A large part...

A large part...

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a...

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Camp is a...

Camp is a...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style but a particular style. It is the love of the...

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A fiction about...

A fiction about...

A fiction about soft or easy deaths. . . is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or...

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Any critic is...

Any critic is...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of...

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Ambition if it...

Ambition if it...

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

Source: The...

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AIDS obliges people...

AIDS obliges people...

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or...

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A photograph is...

A photograph is...

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace,...

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All. . ....

All. . ....

All. . . forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually...

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Authoritarian political ideologies...

Authoritarian political ideologies...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by...

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American energy. ....

American energy. ....

American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural...

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Anthropology has always...

Anthropology has always...

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject. . . . [The...

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AIDS occupies such...

AIDS occupies such...

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very...

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Any important disease...

Any important disease...

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in...

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Cancer patients are...

Cancer patients are...

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is...

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