Quotes by Sontag, Susan

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a >>

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad >>

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furn >>

Quotations about Aphorisms and Epigrams

An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or >>

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a >>

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. >>

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

Sontag, Susan