“I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.”
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Famous Susan Sontag Quotes
“What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.”
“I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.”
“You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.”
“It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.”
“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”
Source: On photography
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”
“The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”
“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”
Source: On photography
Source: On photography
“Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.”
Source: Illness as metaphor
“The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.”
Source: On photography
Source: The benefactor: a novel
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader