Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.


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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
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
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