"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste."

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"Literature is analysis after the event."

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"For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years."

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"It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation - a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless."

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"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."

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"Literature is analysis after the event."

"A book is as private and consensual as sex."

"For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years."

"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."

"I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing."

"When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time."

"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."

"I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."- Mr. Darcy."

"Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all."

"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."

Explore more quotes by Susan Sontag

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."

"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."

"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."

"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."