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Susan Sontag Quotes

American - Author | January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

People Think Suicide Sex AIDS

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Life Dreams Looking My Life Rather

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Art Experience Criticism Now Aim Us

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Ambition Others Does Feeds

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Suffering Most Deeply Feared

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Nature History Anything Changing

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Science Art Science Fiction Fiction

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Evil Blame Need Illness Victims

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

People Feel Attention Envy Actually

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

Beautiful World Camera Become Role

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Work Wake Up Feel Serious Want Up

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Women Beautiful Men Something Most

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