FastSaying

I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success.


Susan Choi

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C. You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say.
“I had to come back early.” Sh...
LISA KLEYPAS There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked...
JESSE KELLERMAN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL I thought she did an excellent job of stepping up her game. With the success we've had, support has ...
ALISON DAVIS She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
SARAH J. MAAS Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
HARPER LEE I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE If you try to find success in fame or in things, you will fail. If you find happiness is the process...
DEBASISH MRIDHA I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind ...
SARAH SHAHI As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu...
C. JOYBELL C. To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours...
DEBASISH MRIDHA You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr...
CHRISTINA ENGELA A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us...
ANTHONY LICCIONE The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas...
SARAH SHAHI I think the purest of souls, those with the most fragile of hearts, must be meant for a short life. ...
EMM COLE Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to s...
DALE CARNEGIE I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget...
CASSANDRA CLARE When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing ...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either.
JAIME CONTRERAS For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not ...
ORI GERSHT Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE Mistakes are stepping stones to success.
CHARLES E. POPPLESTONE Difficulties are stepping stones to success.
SOURCE UNKNOWN

More Susan Choi

I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my ...
SUSAN CHOI I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect ...
SUSAN CHOI All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. ...
SUSAN CHOI It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.'...
SUSAN CHOI I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this...
SUSAN CHOI Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart.
KENNETH CHOI Portland is the perfect weekend getaway. I studied acting in Portland and lived there for five years...
KENNETH CHOI The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of...
KENNETH CHOI This week, the pine trees are very tall and when it's windy, we can see it when we hit the ball. Con...
K.J. CHOI Lots of domestic institutions are taking a cautious stance, so we could see boring, volatile markets...
THOMAS CHOI My dad does watch my work now. My parents watch everything I'm on. I think the first time they s...
KENNETH CHOI This is what Tom Rogers was hired to do: make bold, timely moves.
KARL CHOI My wife designed the whole restaurant herself. We wanted it to be different than other sushi places ...
KEUN CHOI If a customer doesn't like sushi, I like to recommend the seafood salad. Even though it's still raw ...
KEUN CHOI I've been feeling good with my putter and I haven't missed many shots.
KJ CHOI It's still work in progress right now and if I have a chance to win, I'll be most honored to be in t...
K.J. CHOI I'd like to visit my friend and his family who live in Australia. That trip is long overdue.
KENNETH CHOI Cathay Pacific has done a very good job in controlling costs but the scope for further cuts may be l...
JACKY CHOI The collapse was excessive compared with the outlook of economies in the region.
JACKY CHOI The sheer size of the sale will be a major attraction to investors worldwide.
JACKY CHOI We have no knowledge of whether Ms. Stewart committed any improprieties. However, the continued scru...
KARL CHOI My job here is to open the gateway, I guess, for more competition to come in [on the PGA Tour], ... ...
K.J. CHOI As far as my putting, literally 10 minutes before I went out for my first round, this feel came back...
K.J. CHOI I really focused on my game. In Korea, in all the times, every since the last one, anytime I'm in th...
K.J. CHOI I'm not worried about that because I'm putting better. That's been caused by my putting.
K.J. CHOI I've been working on my putting and I should be able to get out of that slump.
K.J. CHOI I always have a good feeling when I come here.
K.J. CHOI You've got to take advantage of them.
K.J. CHOI Andy has been very helpful because he has helped me play my game and pinpoint exactly where and wher...
K.J. CHOI In my first two events this year, my putting was bad. I didn't have any control with the speed of th...
KJ CHOI The field is strong here with many world-class players, but I've got the determination to play well ...
KJ CHOI Today (Saturday) went very well. (I was) very nervous starting the first few holes. I was looking ve...
KJ CHOI There was some wind but after nine holes it seemed to die down a little and I managed to play well.
KJ CHOI This morning it was cold,
KJ CHOI This morning when I woke up, I felt like I woke up on the right side of the bed.
KJ CHOI To the image of the characters, I do change my appearance. For example, I gain weight and I lose wei...
MIN-SIK CHOI Samsung can continue to generate profit growth and earnings this quarter will be positive. The outlo...
CHOI CHANG HOON The outlook on the steel industry is not that positive with increased production from China and pric...
CHOI CHANG HOON The high oil price can't be ignored and it is starting to have a negative impact on consumption in t...
CHOI CHANG HOON Higher oil prices continue to pose threats to the stock market. Weaker consumer sentiment raises con...
CHOI CHANG HOON Brokerage firms will benefit from the regulatory changes as they sell more diversified products.
CHOI CHANG HOON Investors are shifting their money to shares of companies that have positive earnings outlooks this ...
CHOI MIN JAI The regulation changes will help them find new ways to keep generating revenue growth in the long te...
CHOI CHANG HOON A weaker local currency and lower oil ease concern about earnings at exporters.
CHOI CHANG HOON Signs of economic recovery continue to boost investor sentiment on stocks. Earnings at exporters wil...
CHOI MIN JAI My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usu...
TRIEU THI CHOI I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approa...
SUSAN ORLEAN Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in th...
SUSAN POWTER At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and m...
SUSAN VREELAND Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on th...
SUSAN ORLEAN A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder...
SUSAN ORLEAN My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug...
SUSAN HAYWARD When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of c...
SUSAN MINOT To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, ...
SUSAN ORLEAN I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.
SUSAN VASS A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considere...
SUSAN SONTAG The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
SUSAN SONTAG The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write...
SUSAN SONTAG Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we...
SUSAN ERTZ Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...
SUSAN COLLINS My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natu...
SUSAN EGAN One of the things I was hoping to do in the Secretary of the State's Office when I came was to p...
SUSAN BYSIEWICZ I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster w...
SUSAN ORLEAN The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm t...
SUSAN RICE I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much ...
SUSAN ESTRICH My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island ...
SUSAN ISAACS I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and nee...
SUSAN SARANDON I'll never throw away my blue jeans.
SUSAN FORD So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time wi...
SUSAN SHREVE Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviou...
SUSAN ESTRICH We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
SUSAN TAYLOR Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
SUSAN SONTAG A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp...
SUSAN SONTAG The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precio...
SUSAN SONTAG I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors...
SUSAN ORLEAN After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short...
SUSAN VREELAND Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be bo...
SUSAN SARANDON It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the fin...
SUSAN SONTAG Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating th...
SUSAN SONTAG We have a great location between Boston and New York, a highly educated work force, and Connecticut ...
SUSAN BYSIEWICZ I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an ans...
SUSAN OLSEN I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bun...
SUSAN OLSEN Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but ...
SUSAN CAIN War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is,...
SUSAN SONTAG Reality Check
His lying is not contigent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your f...
SUSAN FORWARD Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to the...
SUSAN SONTAG Al forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...
SUSAN SONTAG American energy is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chro...
SUSAN SONTAG The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of A...
SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intelle...
SUSAN SONTAG The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own expe...
SUSAN SONTAG In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art ...
SUSAN SONTAG Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the ra...
SUSAN SONTAG Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading towa...
SUSAN SONTAG I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on...
SUSAN SARANDON What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.
SUSAN MAUSHART When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.
SUSAN FALUDI Ah, Macy Joleen O'James, I love you. More than I ever knew it was possible to love someone. I want t...
SUSAN ANDERSEN Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...
SUSAN SONTAG The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAG She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.
SUSAN WIGGS Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio...
SUSAN SONTAG So that’s your sister?” asks Dee in a quiet voice.
“Yeah.”
“The one you risked y...
SUSAN EE We all go through the same things - it's just a different kind of the same thing
SUSAN GLASPELL And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to tak...
SUSAN KAY A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."

[Speech upon being awa...
SUSAN SONTAG Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more ...
SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou...
SUSAN SONTAG Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. I...
SUSAN SONTAG Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, e...
SUSAN SONTAG The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
SUSAN SONTAG The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAG It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less inter...
SUSAN SONTAG In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents ...
SUSAN SONTAG The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontroll...
SUSAN SONTAG The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...
SUSAN SONTAG Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAG You're only has good as your last haircut.
SUSAN LEE Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be ...
SUSAN SONTAG With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the char...
SUSAN SONTAG The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion ...
SUSAN SONTAG Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a s...
SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
SUSAN SONTAG One person's constant is another person's variable.
SUSAN GERHART Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
SUSAN SONTAG Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it gro...
SUSAN COOLIDGE In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
SUSAN SONTAG A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains o...
SUSAN SONTAG Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest sub...
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 The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You...
SUSAN STRAIGHT The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...
SUSAN SONTAG I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human bei...
SUSAN HOWATCH Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuali...
SUSAN ESTRICH Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell...
SUSAN ORLEAN The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability....
SUSAN SONTAG As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people t...
SUSAN SONTAG Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
SUSAN SONTAG The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of...
SUSAN SONTAG I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
SUSAN SONTAG The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
SUSAN SONTAG