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About Susan Sontag
American writer and critic
Susan Sontag was an American writer and critic. She worked mainly in essays, and also wrote novels. Her first major work was the essay "Notes on 'Camp'" in 1964. She is best known for critical books such as Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, and Regarding the Pain of Others, as well as the short story "The Way We Live Now" and the novels The Volcano Lover and In America. Her work often explored culture, images, and the experience of illness and suffering.
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- “Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.”Susan Sontag
- “But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else.”Susan Sontag
- “One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.”Susan Sontag
- “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…”Susan Sontag
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- “When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.”Ann-Margret
- “If you're just interested in the prestige of banking, that's not what's going to sustain you. You have to be…”James P. Gorman
- “The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.”Billy Sunday
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Books by Susan Sontag
On Photography
2001
Regarding the Pain of Others
2017
Against Interpretation
2001
Illness as metaphor
1978
Death kit
2002