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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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- “Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”Susan Sontag
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- “I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engag…”Susan Sontag
Explore Regret
- “My biggest fear is that I might end up doing a film which I might regret at a later point of time.”Nani
- “Time will make it worse! You're...the other half of his soul. He's never going to get over you. And no matter…”Jamie McGuire
- “I'm not a blokey bloke. I don't take myself too seriously. But that doesn't stop me being a bad person someti…”Tom Ellis
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- “I don't have a desire to prove people wrong, as such, because if you take a look at my Premier League record…”Neil Warnock
- “I know the difference between the confection of live as sung in a minstrel's tale and the sustaining bread of…”Elizabeth Chadwick
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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