Susan Sontag was an American literary theorist, novelist, filmmaker, and political activist.
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“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”
Susan Sontag
“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them”
“Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.”
“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”
“Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.”
“I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams”
“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. . .”
“Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.”
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”