Susan Sontag Berühmte Zitate
("Not only is Fascism (and overt military rule) the probable destiny of all Communist societies — especially when their populations are moved to revolt — but Communism is in itself a variant, the most successful variant, of Fascism. Fascism with a human face.") - Ansprache, Town Hall, New York, 6. Februar 1982, "Susan Sontag Provokes Debate on Communism" http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/12/specials/sontag-communism.html, The New York Times, 27. Februar 1982, p. 27
("The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean Algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.") - Partisan Review (Winter 1967), p. 57 Notes on Susan http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/aug/16/notes-on-susan, The New York Review of Books, Eliot Weinberger, 2007
„Ich nenne mich gerne die weltgrößte Germanistin, die kein Deutsch spricht“
Susan Sontag ist tot https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/literatur-susan-sontag-ist-tot-a-334724.html, 28.12.2004, Der Spiegel; Susan Sontag gestorben https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/literatur-susan-sontag-gestorben-1196786.html, 29.12.2004, FAZ; Das Glück, ein Fremder zu sein https://www.hagalil.com/archiv/2004/12/sontag.htm, 29.12.2004, haGalil
„Du musst tot sein. Wenn Du den Preis gekriegt hast, danach ist Schluss“
auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse, Susan Sontag ist tot https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/literatur-susan-sontag-ist-tot-a-334724.html, 28.12.2004, Der Spiegel; Susan Sontag gestorben https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/literatur-susan-sontag-gestorben-1196786.html, 29.12.2004, FAZ
„Ich war nicht überall, aber es steht auf meiner Liste.“
("I've been everywhere. I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.") - "Unguided Tour", in The New Yorker, 31. Oktober 1977, auch in I, Etcetera, 1977;<br><br> “Her exemplary effort to swallow the world”: Wasserman on Sontag, yesterday in Berlin http://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2015/01/her-exemplary-effort-to-swallow-the-world-wasserman-on-sontag-yesterday-in-berlin, Stanford University, 30. Januar, 2015
Susan Sontag Zitate und Sprüche
Susan Sontag: Zitate auf Englisch
“I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.”
Quelle: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
Susan Sontag buch On Photography
Quelle: On Photography
“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”
Quelle: "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 buch On Photography
"Melancholy Objects", p. 57
On Photography (1977)
Quelle: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Susan Sontag buch On Photography
Quelle: On Photography
Quelle: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Wherever people feel safe (…) they will be indifferent.”
Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others
Quelle: Regarding the Pain of Others
“One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.”
Quelle: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
Quelle: 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
Quelle: Regarding the Pain of Others
“Passion paralyzes good taste.”
Quelle: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.”
Quelle: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“My ignorance is not charming.”
Quelle: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
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