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Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist

Lived from: 1933 - 2004

Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 16 january 1933 Died: 28 december 2004

  • AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
  • AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
  • A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.

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  • Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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  • 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.
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  • A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
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  • A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
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  • A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.
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  • AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
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  • AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
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  • Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
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  • Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
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  • Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
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  • Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
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  • Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
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  • Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
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  • Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated.
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  • Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
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  • Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
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  • Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
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  • Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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  • Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
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  • 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.
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What are the most famous quotes from Susan Sontag?

The two most famous quotes from Susan Sontag are:

  • "Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
  • "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."

When did Susan Sontag live?

Susan Sontag was born in 1933 and died in the year 2004.