Susan Sontag
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
—Susan Sontag, Illness As Metaphor
Posted on March 20, 2001 at 11:31 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.
—Susan Sontag, Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes
Posted on May 17, 2002 at 6:54 AM
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