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Susan Sontag (Writer)

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

— Susan Sontag death

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

— Susan Sontag guilt

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

— Susan Sontag ambition

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

— Susan Sontag words

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt ridden one; or both. Usually both.

— Susan Sontag writer

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of libertyof the indefinite expansion of possibility.

— Susan Sontag liberty

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

— Susan Sontag war

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

— Susan Sontag intelligence

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

— Susan Sontag questions

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isnt sex but death.

— Susan Sontag death

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

— Susan Sontag fear

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