Susan Sontag was an American literary theorist, novelist, filmmaker, and political activist.
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“Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.”
Susan Sontag
“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”
“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”
“I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams”
“Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.”
“It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.”
“A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.”
“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”
“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.”
“The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us. . .”