Quotes by Sontag, Susan

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecolo >>

Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits. >>

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that >>

Quotations about Quotations

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quota >>

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything. >>

I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow. >>

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

Sontag, Susan