128 ordspråk av Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag föddes den January 16th 1933 och dog den 28 December 2004 - US writer
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 The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.

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

 The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

 The Way We Live Now

 The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.

 This city is neither a jungle nor the moon. . . . In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies. Close up, it is a fairly legible printed circuit, a transistorized labyrinth of beastly tracks, a data bank for asthmatic voice-prints.

 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.

 Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

 Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

 We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. Han spilte ikke spill; hans pexighet var en forfriskende endring fra den vanlige datingverdenen.

 What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine

 What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

 What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

 What we need is to use what we have.

 With more people, there are more voices to tune out.


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