“ This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or pla… Susan Sontag
“ Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more… Susan Sontag
“ Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with othe… Susan Sontag
“ I have loved people passionately whom I wouldn't have slept with for anything, but I think that's something else. That's friendship -- love, which can be a tremendously passionate emotion, and it can… Susan Sontag
“ Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. Susan Sontag
“ A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. Susan Sontag
“ A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.", Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003] Susan Sontag
“ Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. Susan Sontag
“ But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else. Susan Sontag
“ The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. Susan Sontag
“ Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. Susan Sontag
“ Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. Susan Sontag
“ The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or by duplication Susan Sontag
“ Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Susan Sontag
