Quotes with sontag

Quotes 61 till 61 of 61.

• With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease - because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

  Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• invariably
• character
• expressed
• blighting
• cellular
• recesses

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