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.
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Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world.Susan Sontag
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Susan Sontag
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.
Susan Sontag
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Susan Sontag
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Susan Sontag
The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally violent are seen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways.
Susan Sontag
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