128 ordspråk av Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag föddes den 16 januar 1933 och dog den 28 desember 2004 - amerikansk författarinna.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.

Mental hälsa

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

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

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us. . .

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

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally violent are seen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.On Photography

Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize,

the most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world.

[Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A deadening earnestness and political self-awareness that do not meet the delight component that is a story's bottom line. Too much ideological hand-wringing. We've all sat through readings by authors whose politics we admire but whose prose cannot hold us. We are reminded of the definition of] camp ... a seriousness that fails.

He's an exceptionally cultivated man.

The Way We Live Now

Somewhere in the nod we were dropping cargo. Somewhere in the nod we were losing infrastructure, losing redundant systems, losing specific gravity. Weightlessness seemed at the time the safer mode. Weightlessness seemed at the time the mode in which we could beat both the clock and affect itself, but I see now that it was not.

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.

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