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Famous Susan Sontag Quotes
“Everything has changed and nothing is changed.”
“Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.”
“The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.”
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.”
“With more people, there are more voices to tune out.”
“The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute”
“I love to read the way people love to watch television.”
“All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.”
“Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.”
“There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.”
“The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.”
“Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.”
“Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.”
“Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures”
“I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.”
“I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.”
“I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo-Conservatives.”
“The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.”