„Zvrácenost je múza moderní literatury.“
Originál: (en) Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
Zdroj: [Sontag, Susan, Against interpretation and other essays, Dell, 1967, 53, angličtina]
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„Bez mlčení jako protipólu by se celý systém jazyka velmi rychle zhroutil.“
Originál: (en) …without the polarity of silence, the whole system of language would fail.
Zdroj: [Sontag, Susan, 1983, A Susan Sontag reader, Svazek 569, Vintage Books, 193, angličtina]
Zdroj: Reborn : Journals and Notebooks , 1947-1963, p. 25
Susan Sontag: Citáty anglicky
“I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.”
Zdroj: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
Susan Sontag kniha On Photography
Zdroj: On Photography
“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”
Zdroj: "Susan Sontag Finds Romance," interview by Leslie Garis, The New York Times (2 August 1992)
“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”
Susan Sontag kniha On Photography
"Melancholy Objects", p. 57
On Photography (1977)
Zdroj: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Susan Sontag kniha On Photography
Zdroj: On Photography
Zdroj: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Wherever people feel safe (…) they will be indifferent.”
Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others
Zdroj: Regarding the Pain of Others
“One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.”
Zdroj: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
Zdroj: The Benefactor (1963), Ch. 1, p. 1, Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-312-42012-9
“[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.”
Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others
Zdroj: Regarding the Pain of Others
“Passion paralyzes good taste.”
Zdroj: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.”
Zdroj: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“My ignorance is not charming.”
Zdroj: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
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