Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
Susan SontagThat tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems that everything falls within its iron laws, is very common. Of course our own experience tells us that life is not as monochrome as these thinkers depict it. On the other hand they are very valuable because they alert us to transformations we are likely to take for granted.
Susan SontagPeople tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.
Susan SontagTime exists in order that everything doesnโt happen all at onceโฆand space exists so that it doesnโt all happen to you.
Susan SontagThe discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.
Susan Sontag