3 December 2020 Susan Sontag The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag 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.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag Volume depends precisely on the writer’s having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
