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Danh ngôn của Susan Sontag (Sứ mệnh: 6)

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
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.
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
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.
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.
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.