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Famous Susan Sontag Quotes
“Literature usually begets literature.”
“The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.”
“A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.”
“To collect photographs is to collect the world.”
“Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.”
“Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.”
“Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.”
“The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.”
“Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.”
“Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism”
“How boring just to be a body.”
“It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.”
“Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.”
“The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.”