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In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.
— Susan Sontag
The ideal or the dream would be to arrive at a language that heals as much as it separates.
— Susan Sontag
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
— Susan Sontag
Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.
— Susan Sontag
Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.
— Susan Sontag
a craving for the cloud of unknowing beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech,
— Susan Sontag
Taste has no system and no proofs.
— Susan Sontag
When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.
— Susan Sontag
Whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.
— Susan Sontag
Literature usually begets literature.
— Susan Sontag
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
— Susan Sontag
Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more.
— Susan Sontag
Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.
— Susan Sontag
The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.
— Susan Sontag
The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.
— Susan Sontag
One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith ...
— Susan Sontag
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
— Susan Sontag
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
— Susan Sontag
The function of writing is to explode one's subject - transform it into something else. (Writing is a series of transformations).
— Susan Sontag
Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.
— Susan Sontag
There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.
— Susan Sontag
Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.
— Susan Sontag