Today is the birthday of Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004), author and political activist."The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions."
— Susan Sontag
"I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them."
— Susan Sontag
"Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager."
— Susan Sontag
"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."
— Susan Sontag
"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."
— Susan Sontag
"Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you."
— Susan Sontag
"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
— Susan Sontag
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