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A little weird? That was freakin' Bizarroville."
He pauses and looks back at me.
"Are you speaking English?


Susan Ee

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SUSAN SONTAG What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full hu...
SUSAN SONTAG Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative...
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
SUSAN SONTAG Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the...
SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon...
SUSAN ERTZ Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of men...
SUSAN SONTAG Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.
SUSAN SHAUGHNESSY Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms,...
SUSAN SONTAG Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.
SUSAN SONTAG We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting...
SUSAN SONTAG A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp...
SUSAN SONTAG Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence,...
SUSAN SONTAG AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It ...
SUSAN SONTAG AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder...
SUSAN SONTAG Always think of your customers as suppliers first. Work closely with them, so they can supply you wi...
SUSAN MARTHALLER I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a pa...
SUSAN SONTAG Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
SUSAN SONTAG The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us...
SUSAN SONTAG Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone n...
SUSAN SONTAG The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion ...
SUSAN SONTAG Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks differe...
SUSAN CHEEVER What we need is to use what we have.
SUSAN SONTAG Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAG Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.
SUSAN RABIN It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
SUSAN SONTAG In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized,...
SUSAN SONTAG The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and...
SUSAN SONTAG Taste has no system and no proofs.
SUSAN SONTAG The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture...
SUSAN SONTAG One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves....
SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoo...
SUSAN ERTZ To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.
SUSAN BLOW Feel the fear and do it anyway.
SUSAN JEFFERS What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
SUSAN CAIN The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o...
SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
SUSAN ERTZ Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wr...
SUSAN RICE Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly...
SUSAN MINOT If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sur...
SUSAN RICE Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I ...
SUSAN ORLEAN I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kind...
SUSAN SONTAG Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide som...
SUSAN LIEBERMAN I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because...
SUSAN WIGGS Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some oth...
SUSAN ESTRICH You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special th...
SUSAN EGAN Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of cou...
SUSAN GEORGE Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAG