Susan Sontag

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#after #alone #been #day #depends

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#feminine #masculine #men #most #most beautiful

What we need is to use what we have. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#use

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

— Susan Sontag

#juxtaposition #quotations #surrealist #taste

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#eventually #everyone #makes #other #own

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#attention #envy #feel #i #paying

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#certain #course #critic #entire #entitled

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#remains #silence #speech

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#feminine #masculine #men #most #most beautiful

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#album #extended #extended family #family #generally