Susan Sontag cytaty
Susan Sontag
Data urodzenia: 16. Styczeń 1933
Data zgonu: 28. Grudzień 2004
Natępne imiona: Susan Sontagová, സൂസൻ സൊൻടാഗ്
Susan Sontag – amerykańska pisarka, eseistka, krytyczka społeczna i aktywistka praw człowieka. Jej książki przetłumaczono na ponad 30 języków. Wikipedia
Cytaty Susan Sontag
Źródło: Monika Bokiniec, Barbara Forysiewicz, Jacek Michałowski, Natalia Mrozkowiak-Nastrożna, Grzegorz Nazaruk, Magdalena Sacha, Grażyna Świętochowska, Spotkania z kulturą. Podręcznik do wiedzy o kulturze dla liceum i technikum, wyd. Nowa Era, Warszawa 2012, ISBN 9788326707926.
Źródło: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Źródło: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Źródło: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
„A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.“
Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
Kontekst: A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human beings are capable of; and not be corrupted — made cynical, superficial — by this understanding.
„Depression is melancholy minus its charms.“
— Susan Sontag, książka Illness as Metaphor
Źródło: Illness as Metaphor
— Susan Sontag, książka Against Interpretation
"Against Interpretation" (1964), p. 8
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)
"The Imagination of Disaster" from Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966), p. 212
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)
„I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.“
"Unguided Tour", in The New Yorker (31 October 1977), final lines; also in I, Etcetera (1977)
Kontekst: A curious word, wanderlust. I'm ready to go.
I've already gone. Regretfully, exultantly. A prouder lyricism. It's not Paradise that's lost.
Advice. Move along, let's get cracking, don’t hold me down, he travels fastest who travels alone. Let's get the show on the road. Get up, slugabed. I'm clearing out of here. Get your ass in gear. Sleep faster, we need the pillow.
She's racing, he's stalling.
If I go this fast, I won't see anything. If I slow down —
Everything. — then I won't have seen everything before it disappears.
Everywhere. I've been everywhere. I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Land's end. But there's water, O my heart. And salt on my tongue.
The end of the world. This is not the end of the world.
„My library is an archive of longings.“
Źródło: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
„To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.“
— Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Źródło: Regarding the Pain of Others