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Susan Sontag híres idézetei
Susan Sontag: Idézetek angolul
Forrás: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Forrás: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
Kontextus: To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck. Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom.
Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.
Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others
Forrás: Regarding the Pain of Others
“Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.
Photographs are.”
Susan Sontag könyv On Photography
Forrás: On Photography
Forrás: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“Most of my reading is rereading.”
Forrás: Conversations with Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag könyv Styles of Radical Will
Forrás: Styles of Radical Will
Forrás: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
Susan Sontag könyv On Photography
Forrás: On Photography
Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
Kontextus: We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new? It seems to me that one should always be seeking to talk oneself out of these stark oppositions.
Susan Sontag könyv Styles of Radical Will
Styles of Radical Will
“Styles change, style doesn't.”
Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't. - Linda Ellerbee, Move On: Adventures in the Real World (1991), p. 35 G.P. Putnam's Sons ISBN 0399136231
Misattributed
"Notes on 'Camp'" (1964), note 9, p. 279 http://books.google.com/books?id=e3qgRrVlEH4C&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA279#v=onepage; originally published in Partisan Review, Vol. 31 No. 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=qEwqAQAAMAAJ&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA519#v=onepage, ( Fall 1964 http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/books/PR1964V31N4/HTML/#519/z) <br class="br">Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)
Partisan Review (Winter 1967), p. 57
“It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.”
Susan Sontag könyv AIDS and Its Metaphors
AIDS and Its Metaphors, (1989), ch. 4, p. 125, Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-312-42013-7
AIDS and Its Metaphors was later published in combination with Illness As Metaphor. This combined edition is the one referenced here.
Regarding the Torture of Others (2004)
Regarding the Torture of Others (2004)