The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. Susan Sontag More Quotes by Susan Sontag More Quotes From Susan Sontag The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality. Susan Sontag photographyselfreality Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament. Susan Sontag usereflectionpractice We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance). Susan Sontag encountersmuseumsworld I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime. Susan Sontag had-enoughlastslifetime You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even. Susan Sontag knows The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references. Susan Sontag bodyeuropeamerica I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references. Susan Sontag grantedcommunitythinking I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way. Susan Sontag closetsspeakway That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true. Susan Sontag assumptionzerocommunity I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo-Conservatives. Susan Sontag aidscomfortgiving If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well. Susan Sontag realwayworld The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop. Susan Sontag sentenceslastsbook I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis. Susan Sontag analysistraditionsocial My skull is crammed with quotations. Susan Sontag quotationsskulls That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer. Susan Sontag becomingdreamworld Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve. Susan Sontag usegonewriting That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems that everything falls within its iron laws, is very common. Of course our own experience tells us that life is not as monochrome as these thinkers depict it. On the other hand they are very valuable because they alert us to transformations we are likely to take for granted. Susan Sontag lawhandsfall You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice. Susan Sontag elementspracticefiction We are ruled by quotations. Susan Sontag quotations The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. Susan Sontag
