Susan Sontag Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.”

“I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.”

“The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.”

“Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.”

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

“It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.”

“It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.”

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

“Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.”

“My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.”