Susan Sontag

Reborn

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  • marilyukhas quoted5 years ago
    ALSO BY SUSAN SONTAG
    FICTION
    The Benefactor • Death Kit • I, etcetera
    The Way We Live Now • The Volcano Lover • In America

    ESSAYS
    Against Interpretation • Styles of Radical Will
    On Photography • Illness As Metaphor • Under the Sign of Saturn
    AIDS and Its Metaphors • Where the Stress Falls
    Regarding the Pain of Others • At the Same Time

    FILM SCRIPTS
    Duet for Cannibals • Brother Carl

    PLAY
    Alice in Bed
  • marilyukhas quoted5 years ago
    Fun”—the American substitute for pleasure
  • marilyukhas quoted5 years ago
    To write you have to allow yourself to be the person you don’t want to be (of all the people you are)
  • marilyukhas quoted5 years ago
    My novels [sic] don’t exist as ideas in my head. As I learn when I try to make plans, notes for them. They exist only as they are written; I am blank before. Just as one can’t run a race in one’s head, one must wait for the gun to start
  • marilyukhas quoted5 years ago
    Being lucid = being active, not wanting to be “good,” i.e., not wanting to be liked by each in turn
  • marilyukhas quoted5 years ago
    The life of the city: a life in rooms, where one sits, or lies down. Personal distance is ruled by the disposition of furniture. In a living room, there is only one thing to do with another person (besides make love—i.e., go to the bedroom): sit and talk. The life of the living room forces talk upon us, and inhibits the capacity for play and for contemplation.
  • marilyukhas quoted5 years ago
    It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin
  • marilyukhas quoted5 years ago
    To I., to love someone is to expose him. To me, to love someone is to prop him up, support him even in his lies
  • marilyukhas quoted5 years ago
    In Philip there is no love of the truth. To think is to defend his will, his moral responses. First he has his conclusions, then he thinks up arguments to support his conclusions. Thinking is the will propping itself up—no surprises
  • marilyukhas quoted5 years ago
    What a delicate instrument language is
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