Author: Susan Sontag

Cites

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1)
  • IN: The Volcano Lover (1992) Fiction, Romance Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: Dorabella (aside): Nel petto un Vesuvio / d'avere mi par
    FROM: Cosi fan tutte, (1790), Opera, Austria
• Langston Hughes (1)
  • IN: In America (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: America will be!
    FROM: Let America Be America Again, (1936), Poem, US
• Baudelaire (1)
  • IN: The Benefactor (1963) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Of sleep, every evening's sinister adventure, it may be observed that men go gaily to their beds with an audacity which would be beyond comprehension did we not know that is the result of their ignorance of danger.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], France
• De Quincey (1)
  • IN: The Benefactor (1963) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If there be anything amiss -- let the Dream be responsible. The Dream is a law to itself; and as well quarrel with a rainbow for showing, or for not showing, a secondary arch... The Dream knows best; and the Dream, I say again, is the responsible party.
    FROM: Preface to The English Mail Coach, (1854), Essay, UK

Cited by

• Christopher Radmann (1)
  • IN: The Crack (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.
    FROM: Illness as Metaphor, (1978), Essay, US
• Siddhartha Mukberjee (1)
  • IN: The Emperor of All Maladies (2011) Biography, American
    EPIGRAPH: Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship. In the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.
    FROM: Illness as Metaphor, (1978), Book, US