Susan Sontag: Frases en inglés
Susan Sontag era profesora, directora de cine, guionista y escritora estadounidense. Frases en inglés.“One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.”
Fuente: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
Fuente: 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
Fuente: Regarding the Pain of Others
“Passion paralyzes good taste.”
Fuente: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.”
Fuente: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“My ignorance is not charming.”
Fuente: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Fuente: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Fuente: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
Contexto: To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck. Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom.
Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.
Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others
Fuente: Regarding the Pain of Others
“Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.
Photographs are.”
Susan Sontag libro On Photography
Fuente: On Photography