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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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- “[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.”Susan Sontag
- “Sisyphus, I. I cling to my rock, you don’t have to chain me. Stand back! I roll it up—up, up. And … down we g…”Susan Sontag
- “Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are those who cou…”Susan Sontag
- “My library is an archive of longings.”Susan Sontag
Truth: more sayings
- “Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion.”Abhijit Naskar
- “I've had a lot of plastic surgery, and I'm completely honest about it.”Anitta
- “If beauty is pain — let me get lost in it. If you’re my salvation — I want to earn it. If love is all I have…”Rachel Van Dyken
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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