It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
Susan SontagA lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.
Susan SontagNo 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.
Susan Sontag