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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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- “To photograph is to confer importance.”Susan Sontag
- “Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that…”Susan Sontag
- “To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not nec…”Susan Sontag
- “What we need is to use what we have.”Susan Sontag
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- “And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal…”Oliver Burkeman
- “I don't like to think about others losing or not performing well. No, no - I'm not that kind of person.”Juan Mata
- “I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off…”Sloane Crosley
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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