WRITERS > author, critic > Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag: It's a pleasure...

Source: WRITERS

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Source: Debriefing, in American Review, (New York) Sep 1973.
-- Susan Sontag, (Jan 16 1933-2004), US author, critic; She was one of the most influential contemporary American critics, utilizing new sensibility to evaluate art.


(C)2025 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA