122 ordspråk av Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag föddes den 16 januari 1933 och dog den 28 december 2004 - US writer
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 My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,' |
| Naive or commercial or merely utilitarian photography is no different in kind from photography as practiced by the most gifted professionals, |
| Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic. |
| Of course the movies are going to be the more visible, more high profile, for the simple reason that a lot more money is involved and this is a largely money-oriented society. ... Nevertheless, this is a very good book town, whether it's known to be that or not, and that's why you have something like this. |
| One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits. |
| Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. |
| Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. |
| Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space. That we are here, prosperous, safe, unlikely to go to bed hungry or be blown to pieces this evening, while elsewhere in the world, right now in Grozny, in Najaf, in the Sudan, in the Congo, in Gaza, in the favelas of Rio....
To be a traveler—and novelists are often travelers—is to be constantly reminded of the simultaneity of what is going on in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited and from which you have returned home. |
| Perversity is the muse of modern literature |
| Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize, |
| Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds |
| Sanity is a cozy lie. |
| Sanity is a cozy lie. |
| Sanity is a cozy lie. |
| Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. |
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