A Quote by Susan Sontag

One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag
American - Author
January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

Susan Sontag

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

Sophie Swetchine

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

Milan Kundera

The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

C.P. Cavafy

Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.

Donatella Versace

I am usually frivolous and fun, but sometimes I can be dead serious in my comments.

Sajid Khan

We need to get serious about defeating ISIS; we just aren't serious about it yet. I would be very serious about getting it done. I know how to do it. We need to take the fight to them on the battlefield in a more serious way.

Evan McMullin

Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

Soren Kierkegaard

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

Charlotte Bronte

Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will be of serious consequence to you, When they have made you once ridiculous.

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

Mason Cooley

Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.

Linda Ronstadt

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

Akiva Goldsman

I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff.

Varun Grover

The hard part about writing about a guy like John Brown is that he was so serious, and his cause was so serious, that most of what's been written about him is really serious and, in my opinion, a little bit boring.

James McBride

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