AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. Susan Sontag Read Quote
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. Susan Sontag Read Quote
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. Susan Sontag Read Quote
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. Susan Sontag Read Quote
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. Susan Sontag Read Quote
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. Susan Sontag Read Quote
I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. Susan Sontag Read Quote
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. Susan Sontag Read Quote
