Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. Susan Sontag More Quotes by Susan Sontag More Quotes From Susan Sontag Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. Susan Sontag simpleselflying Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently. Susan Sontag readingwaitingbook Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure. Susan Sontag regardtreasurepatient Everything has changed and nothing is changed. Susan Sontag things-have-changedchanged Few ever see what is not already inside their heads. Susan Sontag The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism. Susan Sontag most-amazingphenomenonidealism God, living is enormous! Susan Sontag enormous Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture. Susan Sontag mass-cultureagematter The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured. Susan Sontag tuberculosiscancermedicine The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction. Susan Sontag literaturemaybook 'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated. Susan Sontag stylevisionworld If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space. Susan Sontag theatrespacedoe Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. Susan Sontag detailslife-isforever Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. Susan Sontag selfmeanlying The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past. Susan Sontag qualityphotographpast ... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience. Susan Sontag pornographyconsciousnessgoal The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally violent areseen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways. Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with glitter in his hair. Susan Sontag hairmenpeople ... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve. Susan Sontag photographypurposeart Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals. Susan Sontag individualtypetheatre Courage is morally neutral. Susan Sontag
